Hi Guys,
I am currenly using Audacity to try and clean up an audio file. I recorded a bit of footage for Stahlkoffer panniers and I am putting together some Youtube clips for them to promote their gear. Anyway, the recording situation was not ideal. In a workshop with (it was -2 degrees outside at the time) banging and clanging going on in the background.
So far using Audacity - A great free tool btw. I have used the Noise reduction effect to pretty much eliminate the white noise in the background. This did dullen the voice a bit though. I have then used the envelope tool to cut out the isolated clangs and bangs in the background. I am left with a couple that I cannot get rid of because they overlap the things that the subject is saying and if I cut those clangs I cut the voice as well - I am going to edit these parts out most likely. After all this the sound of the voice was still too low so I used the normalise effect (on default settings, using all effects on default settings atm) to increase the volume of the voice. This amplication has resulted in the s sounds on the start and end of words being a very high hiss - sss. If you dl the attached file you will be able to hear it in the background - pariculary in the last 5 or so seconds with the thing the subject says then.
I am trying to get rid of this sound. Have played around with the EQ but dont know enough about sound to know which frequencies to cut and I am having no luck. Anyone know how to do this?
The end result I am going for is loud voice - doesnt matter if itis too rough as going to layer it over background music in order to distract viewer/listener from it's 'roughness'.
I have been on the sound engineering forums but everything there is directed at higher end sound production and not a basic level so I thought maybe here someone might be able to tell me in laymans terms
I am currenly using Audacity to try and clean up an audio file. I recorded a bit of footage for Stahlkoffer panniers and I am putting together some Youtube clips for them to promote their gear. Anyway, the recording situation was not ideal. In a workshop with (it was -2 degrees outside at the time) banging and clanging going on in the background.
So far using Audacity - A great free tool btw. I have used the Noise reduction effect to pretty much eliminate the white noise in the background. This did dullen the voice a bit though. I have then used the envelope tool to cut out the isolated clangs and bangs in the background. I am left with a couple that I cannot get rid of because they overlap the things that the subject is saying and if I cut those clangs I cut the voice as well - I am going to edit these parts out most likely. After all this the sound of the voice was still too low so I used the normalise effect (on default settings, using all effects on default settings atm) to increase the volume of the voice. This amplication has resulted in the s sounds on the start and end of words being a very high hiss - sss. If you dl the attached file you will be able to hear it in the background - pariculary in the last 5 or so seconds with the thing the subject says then.
I am trying to get rid of this sound. Have played around with the EQ but dont know enough about sound to know which frequencies to cut and I am having no luck. Anyone know how to do this?
The end result I am going for is loud voice - doesnt matter if itis too rough as going to layer it over background music in order to distract viewer/listener from it's 'roughness'.
I have been on the sound engineering forums but everything there is directed at higher end sound production and not a basic level so I thought maybe here someone might be able to tell me in laymans terms