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Subject: RE: [microsound] [OT]? Hiss reduction recommendations



I recently had to do some similar cleaning - the waves restoration bundle is

very good - as is the noise reduction tool in CoolEdit Pro. These both

"sample"

the noise (take do an FFT "image" of it") and try and remove it using FFT.

You

can get odd artefacts if you try and remoe too much. Its a pain staking

(and

boring) job.



A good compressor should help with the volume. Noise gates have to be used

with

care on speech - the human mind can edit out a certain level of constant

background noise - gating it constanltly brings the signal back to you

attention.



cheers



mark



-----Original Message-----

From: Bill Jarboe [mailto:billjarboe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Sent: 03 March 2002 05:56

To: microsound

Subject: Re: [microsound] [OT]? Hiss reduction recommendations





on 3/02/02 10:56 PM, Michael Bleming at mbleming@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:



> Hi I hope this is not too off topic, if it is, please refer me to a list

> better suited to the question...anyway... I have a friend who is working

on a

> documentary to complete his masters requirements...he's ran into a wall in

> regards to the audio quality of some of the interviews. A number of the

> interviews suffer from serious hiss issues coupled with low volume levels.

> What is the best way to reduce this extreme hiss and raise the level of

the

> audio as well? The interviews were one shot deals and cannot be recorded

> again. The poor audio quality sticks out like a sore thumb and he'd like

to

> find a way to clean it up, cheaply if possible. I'm aware of a number of

> restoration programs but I have no experience with them...is there a way

to

> cut the hiss while raising the level that will not cost an arm and a leg?

> Sorry if this is too far off topic and thanks for ANY help you can give.

> Michael

>

I don't know what platform your friend is working on. I have found that the

best way to do the hiss removal thing is to find an app. that supports vst

plug ins and then try changing the phase first ( this can cancel hiss in

some cases) with something like imager <http://sonomatics.com/>for mac.

After that try a compressor and a noise gate , maybe in tandem with

selective e.q..



Waves <http://www.waves.com/> offers a restoration bundle demo , I haven't

tried it yet myself(could be fun).







Bill





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   >
      <DIV>Hi,</DIV>
      <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
      <DIV>Diamond Cut Live 4.74 has some good features for restoration and 
      broadcast. Here is a list of its noise reduction features:</DIV>
      <DIV>Impulse Noise Filter,&nbsp; Interpolate function,&nbsp; 
      continuous&nbsp; Noise Filter,&nbsp; Harmonic Filter,&nbsp;&nbsp; Dynamic 
      Filter,&nbsp; Low&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </DIV>
      <DIV>Pass Filter,&nbsp; High Pass filter,&nbsp;&nbsp; Band pass 
      filter,&nbsp;&nbsp;notch Filter,&nbsp; Median Filter,&nbsp; average 
      Filter,&nbsp; de-filter,&nbsp; </DIV>
      <DIV>Azimuth Correction tool,&nbsp; speed correction, real Time spectrum 
      analyzer,&nbsp; real time&nbsp;channel 
      blender,&nbsp;&nbsp;De-Esser.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</DIV>
      <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
      <DIV>I have also found Ray Gun 2.0 from Arboretum Systems to be very 
      beneficial in certain types of noise reduction. It is really simple to 
      use, automatically finds noise </DIV>
      <DIV>and kills it.</DIV>
      <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
      <DIV>Waves Restoration bundle has multi-level descision algorithms making 
      top notch reduction </DIV>
      <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
      <DIV>Steinberg Wavelab contains the VST effects NoiseGate and De-noiser 
      which both work well.</DIV>
      <DIV>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
      </DIV>
      <DIV>cya</DIV>
      <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
      <DIV>Adam</DIV>
      <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
      <DIV id=IncrediOriginalMessage><I>-------Original Message-------</I></DIV>
      <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
      <DIV id=receivestrings>
      <DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" <i><B>From:</B></I> <A 
      href="mailto:microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx";>microsound</A></DIV>
      <DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" <i><B>