How to silence audio parts, where nobody is talking without touching anything else?

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September 21, 2021
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Helly everybody,

I am thinking about the solution to this problem for a long time now and still havent figured it out 😞

The Setting is:
I record Interview-Videos with guests, each person has his own audio-track.
So when I am not speaking, my microphone still picks up my breathing sounds and other random stuff.
Thats why I want to silence these parts automatically.

In my opinion, there should be an automatic solution to this. Something like: mute all parts, where the audio level doesnt peak about a certain level BUT don't touch the other parts at all.

When I am trying to use a noise gate, it always modifies the parts where I speak also and lowers the quality therefore.

Soooo: Does anybody have an easy solution to this? 🙂
Thank you in advance!!

Andreas

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salvo34

Inspiring

a trial solution would be to lower volume level on your own mic to make less sensitive to sound in general, and then talk LOUDER when you want to say stuff. It's easier to lower volume to match levels than getting rid of noise.

i doubt this poster will be back

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Richard M Knight

Community Expert

Rather than using a noise gate you could try an expander.

chrisw44157881

Inspiring

you could try dialogue isolate in izotope. it only listens to words, not sounds. post a few seconds of your clip.

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andreasn41030727Author

Participant

Unfortunately I cant afford Izotope right now. So even if it can handle the problem, I couldnt use that solution 😕😕
But thanks for the idea!! 🙂

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salvo34

Inspiring

no, you cannot do this automatically.

there may be ways to mitigate but as you discovered, it effects the whole track.

the best thing is to not let it happen to begin with.

for example... don't breathe or make other random sounds.

or

use a different mic.

there is no magic in editing.

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andreasn41030727Author

Participant

Thats really unfortunately.. 😞

My Mic is quiet good, but yeah, it catches breathing and atm I am not able to just stop with that.

What I really wonder is, why it cant be done in editing automatically.

This has nothing to do with magic. It should be technically possible to select all sections of a track, where the audio-level is under some value of db.

I will try some of the suggestions, the others made 🙂

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cre8vimp

Legend

I believe Audition has tools for this.