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Edit a really bad conversation recording
Hello
I need help with a conversation recording that has alot of background noise and humming to get the dialogue in the back. Can anyone help or recommend a very good, easy to use software.
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Hello Sue and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.
Can you post a bit of this audio somewhere with a link so we can hear it?
Regards,
Ty Ford
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Yeah, a sample would be good. There are some nice noise reduction fx that you can apply, provided there’s enough tone to collect a good noise signature AND the voices aren’t too too buried.
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[Sue Howard] “I need help with a conversation recording that has alot of background noise and humming to get the dialogue in the back. Can anyone help or recommend a very good, easy to use software.”
As others have said, we’d need to hear a sample to have any idea what to recommend.
That said, this is sort of like saying you put too much salt in your cake, and want to know how to take some of it out now that the cake has been baked. Very difficult, easy way is to bake another cake with the correct levels of ingredients. IOW, restage and rerecord with the proper mic in the proper position this time. If there’s any way for you to have such a do-over, that’s what you should pursue because that’s what will get you the best results. Really.
As for recovery / repair of what you have, about the best you can hope for is to increase the signal to noise ratio (dialog to background) a bit, and roll off the top and bottom end that’s not in the voice frequencies. It’s likely not going to sound stellar, but may be just good enough to use. IOW, don’t get your hopes up. You can’t generally just drop the background noise out completely, because that background noise almost always overlaps the frequencies used by your dialog. Much depends on the nature of that background noise, which is why the requests for you to post a sample.
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Thank you all for your responses! Where should I post it? I have no idea how to do this so please bear with me.
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Dear Ty,
I uploaded an extract of the recording.
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Sorry, Sue,
Not seeing it.
Ty
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I uploaded it againg, dont know for sure if I am doing it right, please advise
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Extract of the recording
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Still not seeing a link anywhere. I’m eager to hear this!!
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