Audio Help on Air conditioner background noise

Roger Shealy · July 22nd, 2009, 05:55 AM

Chris,

thanks for taking the challenge. Your clip works pretty good, but it has more of a "tinny" sound to it. Better than I was able to get with Vegas, but not as good as Tim's.

Tim,

I was able to plop your audio into my timeline and it sounded very good to the other clips, the voices were not significantly altered and sounded natural. The only issue is it cleaned up a lot of the other background noise as well! I may have to copy a little white noise from the other clips and put it on top of yours!

Roger Shealy · July 22nd, 2009, 05:38 PM

I gave CS4 Soundbooth a try and it does a pretty good job. I think Tim's may be a smidge better, with a slightly more open sound.

Kevin Duffey · July 22nd, 2009, 08:22 PM

Roger, the soundbooth one sounds just as good to me. That's pretty impressive. What did you use in SoundBooth to clean it up with?

Roger Shealy · July 22nd, 2009, 08:34 PM

Just used the task "remove a sound", took a noise sample between speech (as Tim told me he did on Izo) and then told it to apply. You have two sliders, one to determine how aggressive to clean up and a second slider to determine how many dB to reduce the filtered noise. This is the first time I've really used Soundbooth, so there may be more advanced options than what I used in this brief experiment.

I think the clips from CS4 and Izo are very close. The Izo clip may have slightly better tonal qualities, but it's very, very close. Perhpas more in the exact "mix" we each used than the capabilities of the software.

Chris Barcellos · July 22nd, 2009, 08:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Roger Shealy

Chris,

thanks for taking the challenge. Your clip works pretty good, but it has more of a "tinny" sound to it. Better than I was able to get with Vegas, but not as good as Tim's.

Tim,

I was able to plop your audio into my timeline and it sounded very good to the other clips, the voices were not significantly altered and sounded natural. The only issue is it cleaned up a lot of the other background noise as well! I may have to copy a little white noise from the other clips and put it on top of yours!

As I said, a little more time could be put into this. Point is this free program has promise, and I am betting it can do as well, putting time into it. It has same sliders and adjustments.

Martin Wiosna · July 22nd, 2009, 10:13 PM

What can be used to remove highway traffic noise from the background of a scene?

Roger Shealy · July 23rd, 2009, 04:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Chris Barcellos

As I said, a little more time could be put into this. Point is this free program has promise, and I am betting it can do as well, putting time into it. It has same sliders and adjustments.

Thanks Chris, I was trying to meet a deadline and had to go with the best at hand. I'd be interested to know how you feel about the program when you've had time to explore it thoroughly.

July 22nd, 2009, 05:55 AM	#16
Roger Shealy Major Player Join Date: May 2007 Location: Fayetteville, GA Posts: 772	Chris, thanks for taking the challenge. Your clip works pretty good, but it has more of a "tinny" sound to it. Better than I was able to get with Vegas, but not as good as Tim's. Tim, I was able to plop your audio into my timeline and it sounded very good to the other clips, the voices were not significantly altered and sounded natural. The only issue is it cleaned up a lot of the other background noise as well! I may have to copy a little white noise from the other clips and put it on top of yours!

July 22nd, 2009, 08:22 PM	#18
Kevin Duffey Major Player Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: California Posts: 206	Roger, the soundbooth one sounds just as good to me. That's pretty impressive. What did you use in SoundBooth to clean it up with?

July 22nd, 2009, 08:34 PM	#19
Roger Shealy Major Player Join Date: May 2007 Location: Fayetteville, GA Posts: 772	Just used the task "remove a sound", took a noise sample between speech (as Tim told me he did on Izo) and then told it to apply. You have two sliders, one to determine how aggressive to clean up and a second slider to determine how many dB to reduce the filtered noise. This is the first time I've really used Soundbooth, so there may be more advanced options than what I used in this brief experiment. I think the clips from CS4 and Izo are very close. The Izo clip may have slightly better tonal qualities, but it's very, very close. Perhpas more in the exact "mix" we each used than the capabilities of the software.

July 22nd, 2009, 10:13 PM	#21
Martin Wiosna Regular Crew Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: thomaston, ct Posts: 141	What can be used to remove highway traffic noise from the background of a scene?