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  • Best way to reduce metallic sounds on voice recording

    Posted by Ina Clausen on February 7, 2019 at 7:22 am

    I am trying to salvage the sound from a webinar, and any advice is greatly appreciated.
    I usually work with audio that only needs basic enhancements, so I am fairly inexperienced at this.
    This audio is the result of a colleague recording a webinar on their screen, using the audio from a skype-call, recorded I believe with a low grade or built in laptop microphone.
    The result is an overly compressed metallic sounding voice with a lot of digital distortion (no clipping though).

    This is a sample I already tried to dehum, de-ess, dehiss, denoise, hard limit, equalize and who-knows-what-else.
    https://soundcloud.com/ina-clausen/ys-webinar-sound-sample
    Anything you would suggest, that I haven’t already tried? Or tips on how to use above mentioned tools to get a better result?
    I use Premiere Pro and Audition.

    Ina Clausen
    Videojournalist (VJ)
    Interacoustics A/S
    Denmark
    Creative Cloud Suite

    Ty Ford replied 7 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Ty Ford

    February 8, 2019 at 1:16 am

    Hello Ina and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum,

    My first thought is that it’s the result of serious data compression. You might try izotope noise reduction, but you’re already hearing the underwater sound associated with noise reduction. They have a de-reverb program that will make things sound different, but I don’t know it it will de-bug your voicetrack.

    Regards,

    Ty Ford
    CowAudio Forum Leader

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