lowering crowd talk

[Willie Toth]

Background crowd noise can be hard because it spans the same frequencies you want to keep … As far as I can hear it isn’t that bad, the clicking drives me more nuts than that but that can be taken out using the single click removal tool in spectral view … You may be able to get some of the background noise out in spectral mode also … If you have a place in your recording that just is background try this … Highlight just the noise then go into the noise removal filter and capture then OK … Now go back and highlight the whole audio clip open the noise removal filter again click on preview and experiment with how much you want to remove, I would start with about 50% or back it off just before the music starts getting ugly … From there open the filters and use the parametric … I would take a bit of midrange out but you may want to experiment and see what sounds good to your ears but make sure your system has bass and treble on zero or flat … Next I would use the hard limit filter with the max limit set to -1db and boost to 6db … You want to preview to make sure it isn’t too hot … Remember be careful with adding or subtracking mid lows or highs since the average stereo speaker doesn’t have the flat responce that is needed for proper eq … Most of the time use the “Less is more” concept and all will be good … Your hard limit will fatten things up and give it some dynamic’s ………. WILLIE

[Dpdenver]

Thanks – I will try that (if I can figure it out -but I think I can). I did try the noise reduction – but lack of knowledge and use of audition didn’t help – so thanks for the detail.

The clicking noise is the fire crackling…… I didn’t notice it as much cause I knew what it was – but good point.

[Dpdenver]

Another question…..

I have read several postings on the audio process – and I basically have gone through the clips as follows:
1. Restoration for Clicks, Hiss, and Noise Reduction
2. parametric EQ for a bit of richness
3. Hard Limiter (instead of normalizing)
4. DONE

The hard limiter seems to bring up everything x db’s and limits peaks.

Now my question is I have used a filter before (different program) called leveler – and it seems to bring up the quiet parts to the same level as the louder parts. That seems different than the hard limiter – is there a similar filter such as the leveler that I used with my other program ?