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Ridding a mic noise – HELP!
I still don’t know where this noise came from – during an in-studio living room set shoot. It sounds like someone was knocking knuckles on a table- low frequency bumping sounds. It seems to match some gesturing by a guest. I was micing with nic DPA mics. Perhaps the xlr connector was bumping against something.
Anyway, what audio tools might isolate a sound like this and reduce/eliminate it. I’m skeptical anything can fix it, but I’ve been amazed at some of the tools success rate.
LSW
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If it is a pretty low frequency you can cut it with a parametric EQ and not affect the overall audio too much. You can try highlighting a section of the audio and put it on loop playback, add an EQ effect, do a cut on the EQ and slowly sweep it back and forth while playing the clip until you find the offending frequency of the thump. A parametric EQ will allow you to adjust the Q (width of the cut) so you can pinpoint the frequency in a much narrower range. Once you find the freq you need to cut, you can split the event that just has the thump in it and move it to a seperate track, add the EQ to that track only, and it will not affect the rest of your audio.
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Thank You, Ted that was VERY helpful! I’ll try it right now.
thanks
Larry
LSW
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