Super Clean Sound Film

[John Rofrano]

[Debbie King] “Can RX3 help with this?”

iZotope RX is the goto plug-in for removing noise. You won’t find any better and you don’t need the advanced version. The basic version is fine. If you have a Mac you could use Sound Soap but there is no longer a PC version.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[Debbie King]

Hi John:

Would the RX3 remove the noise without affecting the dialogue. I was trying to describe the affect Audacity had on dialogue. I read somewhere where the person called it a metallic sound. I agree with him. It’s not an echo sound it’s metallic.. Not only the dialogue, but other sounds as well are affected the same way.

Many thanks,

Debbie

[Neil Porter]

I’ve used Sony Sound Forge Noise reduction to get rid of background noise from time to time. If you overdo it you will get that ‘metallic’ sound on the voices – I call it robotic or, more nerdy, Dalek. However …..

What about Sony Spectral Layers? Doesn’t that do exactly what you want? Check out some of their video tutorials on Spectral Layers. It will be time-consuming but I think it will do the job.

[John Rofrano]

The metallic or under-water sound if from applying too much reduction at once. You need to apply a little reduction several times to avoid that from happening. You need to listed to the noise that’s being removed and if you can hear speech in the noise then you know you’ve applied too much reduction.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[Colin Morris]

Hi Debbie,
A technique I have used in the past is to duplicate the audio onto multiple tracks and use each track for a different plugin/treatment-then sync them together again to get the sound you want. For example track 1 may have a denoiser plugin at one setting and track 2 the same plugin at another setting. The trick is to not try to do everything on a single track. Duplicate the section of dialogue, treat it, and then mix them back together.
BTW- As Mike suggested, get a copy of Jay Rose’s book. It has saved me several times over the years.

Colin Mendez Morris
ArsMusica
http://www.arsmusica.ca

[Debbie King]

Hi Neil:

Thank you. I will definitely check it out.

Many thanks,

Debbie

[Debbie King]

Hi Colin:

I will try this. Thank you so much.

Best,

Debbie

[Debbie King]

Hi Mike:

Thank you for the reference. I also saw another one of Jay Rose’s books “Audio Postproduction for Film and Video: After-the-Shoot solutions, Professional Techniques, and Cookbook Recipes to Make Your Project Sound Better” Have you read that one. My situation is definitely a post-production one.

Many thanks,

Debbie

[John Rofrano]

[Debbie King] “Soundness took over the business and is now offering Soundsoap for PC’s.”

Ah, I didn’t realize they eventually made a PC version. When I bought Sound Soap 3 for Mac there was no PC version. This is good news.

[Debbie King] “Would you say that it is comparable to Izotope RX, or would RX3 be a better buy?”

iZotope RX3 is definitely better because it gives you more tools for cleaning. It’s also twice the price. Sound Soap 3 is very easy to use and does a great job. I didn’t see any way to download a trial copy. That’s what you really want so that you can test it on your footage and make sure it removes your noise. Maybe contact them and ask if they have a trial? If you can afford RX3 then just get that. You will not be sorry, it’s an amazing tool set.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[Debbie King]

The availability is recent. They just made it available a few weeks ago. Thank you for the advise on separating the audio files into separate tracks. It was tedious, but I have much more control over what’s on the timeline.

Best,

Debbie