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Is there a way to seperate the most quiet sounds in a recording??
So I got this lady talking in near a water fountain. Her voice is much louder than the stream but when I go to throw a compressor into the mix, I have trouble getting it to work the way I want. Should I just keep messing around with the threshold or is there another tool which could make the quiet sounds . . . quieter
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Perhaps more appropriate to use a “gate” sometimes referred to as a “noise gate” because that is a very common use of the gating function. You can set the threshold to some level just below the dialog but higher than the noise.
Note that you can have the spaces between the dialog completely blanked out to complete silence. However, that typically sounds unnatural. So it is common practice to allow an attenuated level of noise through for a more “natural” effect.
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Hello Brandon and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.
I know exactly what you mean. Add gain reduction and water fountains rise and inhales sound asthmatic.
iZotope’s RX7 noise reduction has worked well for me, running inside Pro Tools.
You could always rent a two-channel DNS-2 and loop the audio though that and back to a couple of tracks. They are easy and awesome.
Check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCcHEFmZ22Q
Regards,
Ty Ford
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Sir, my jaw dropped. I just got my hands on Izotope which is quite Izodope (I’m here all night) But I always wondered what kinds of systems were used to do this on location. I can’t believe how well that worked. I feel like the rest could be cleaned up easy.
I got something new to look into!
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Brandon,
Excellent! I’m glad you’re up to the curve. I used it earlier this year to clean up 114 hours of stereo audio from lectures given in the 1970s. The clients were impressed. BTW, the mouth de-clicker and de-popper are also dope.
Happy Trails,
Ty Ford
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Welcome to the Izotope appreciation society.
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