Help with cleaning up interviews taken at a conference!

[Ty Ford]

Hello Olly and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

Soundtrack Pro has some noise reduction capabilities, but I have no idea if they will work. Try it and let us know.

Thanks,

Ty Ford

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[Jordan Wolf]

Chalk it up to experience and remember it for next time.

Experiment with Soundtrack Pro and see what you can do…not much, I doubt, though. Good luck.

Wolf
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[Marcello Mazzilli]

If you give us a link to a test file.. just audio not video.. we can try to do something.
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[Spencer Sternberg]

I would experiment first with a compressor (to boost levels whilst keeping the output from clipping) and equalization to cut out as much of the room noise you can. If you have access to a noise reduction plugin that would be ideal also.

Finding the balance between boosting levels, equalization, multi-band compression, expanders and noise reduction techniques, is a difficult job, especially when the part of the original sound file you want to boost is so low. I think experimentation is the key.

Another technique you could try, is to duplicate the track several times, so you were playing say three tracks of the same audio track, and use equalization to pull out all the room noise.

I haven’t used soundtrack pro before, but if it has some of these plugins you could be on your way to a better sound file.

Spencer Sternberg
Audio for Games
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