Anybody have ideas?

[Thomas Mcintosh]

Are you talking about the hiss in the background of the woman’s voice clip? It’s not that noticable, especially with the background music there.

You could try Noise Removal in Audacity, but that will usually produce audible artifacts that may be more noticeable than the original noise.

[Don Hertz]

I’m no audio expert but the first two things I would try is send the clip over to Audition, take a noise print of the hiss behind the lady and apply noise reduction. If you try to remove too much on the first pass you may get distortion in the voice. I find it’s better to do it multiple times, removing a little of the noise each time. I’d then put a Parametric EQ on both – give the guy a bit more high end, and perhaps the female a bit more low end.

[Kent Beeson]

Thanks for feedback – never used Audition before – I’m 10 years using FC Studio – so what to choose from below? Do you also know what sliders to best play with?

[Don Hertz]

Select a portion of the waveform that is only the hiss sound you want to remove. Then choose “Capture Noise Print”. Then select the entire waveform and choose “Noise Reduction”. A window will pop up with setting you can adjust to vary the amount of reduction.

There are a lot of really good video tutorials around on-line if you need help figuring it out.

As a former FCS user myself – once you learn it you’ll find Audition much better than Soundtrack Pro.

Don

[Kent Beeson]

Really nice – thanks – so how can I now apply that same effect with its parameters to about 10 other audio clips? I’ve got them all opened in Audition, how to copy and paste to each track?

[Don Hertz]

It’s been awhile since I’ve done that and there might be an easier way but I believe once you have all your noise reduction settings in place you can just save it as a Favorite (click a small star icon somewhere in the effect window.) Then you go to the EDIT menu and open up the Batch window. Drag in the other files you want to apply the effect to, choose your Favorite, and hit go. It’ll add the favorite effect to every file in the list.

Again, its been awhile and maybe there’s an easier method in CC. I’m not at my editing system now. I’ll be interested if someone else chimes in with a better solution.

Don

[Kent Beeson]

Thanks for the help – here’s the deal, not knowing otherwise, I’ve tweaked three diff effects on the clip in the waveform viewer and it all sounds great, but how to get those three on that clip placed onto the other 4? It won’t let me make a favorite out of these effects, and I don’t even know how to make adjustments to them now that they’re on that clip…can’t believe there’s not a simple way – ADOBE, should make it easier, right click on that clip copy, then paste attributes to another clip…

It’s those three effects in the history window that I want to transfer to others as well.

[Paul Neumann]

So open each one of those effects and save those setting as a preset. Say VONR, VOPE & VOGE. Start a new Multitrack Session. Load each clip into its own track in this new session. Load your presets into the Effects Rack and save that rack as a preset of its own. Now you can easily apply these 3 effects using one preset to each track. Then use Multitrack/Send To Adobe Premiere and you can choose to send each track individually back to PPro and they’ll all be in nice and tidy folder and sequence (if you so choose) for you to replace in your project.

[Kent Beeson]

Thanks very much – I think that did it