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Voice De-noise Restore problematic vocal or production recordings in real time with iZotope RX's Voice De-noise audio plug-in and module. Improving on the earlier Dialogue De-noise, the zero-latency Voice De-noise is the most powerful de-noiser focused on dialogue and sung vocal treatment. IZotope RX 3 vs. Adobe Audition, Part 2: Noise and Reverb/Echo Reduction In this final round between audio editing champs iZotope RX 3 and Adobe Audition CC, we compare the two audio editors in noise reduction and reverb/echo reduction. Izotope RX: How to Remove Background Noise from Your Voice Recordings by Douglas Karr on Martech Zone. Voice De-noise can intelligently analyze speech signals and determine the best noise threshold for your signal. In a DAW, this feature can be used to write automation in case you need to override the automatic settings and correct the noise threshold by hand.

De-noise: Spectral

De-noise gives you control over the level of stationary noise in a recording.

The De-noise module has two modes: Spectral and Dialogue. This chapter relates to the Spectral mode.

Spectral De-noise builds a spectral footprint of noise, then subtracts that noise when a signal’s frequency drops below the threshold defined by the spectral footprint. Stationary noise does not significantly change in level or spectral shape throughout the recording. Stationary noise includes tape hiss, microphone hum, power mains buzz, camera motor noise, fans, highway traffic, and HVAC systems.

Spectral De-noise is a flexible tool that can be used to quickly achieve accurate, high-quality noise reduction. It also gives you the control necessary to tackle problematic noise with separate controls for tonal and broadband noise, management of denoising artifacts, and an editing interface for controlling reduction across the frequency spectrum.

It allows you to learn a noise profile, then increase the amount of reduction to reduce this noise. Once you have a good amount of reduction, you may want to adjust the Threshold slider. While adjusting the threshold, listen for artifacts like pumping (dramatic changes in audio level) or gating (bursts of noise remaining after useful signal).

Lower thresholds will treat more signal like useful signal, and are useful if you need to preserve audio material that descends gradually into quiet noise (like orchestral tails).

Higher thresholds are useful for achieving more reduction on transient material (like drums or voice).

If your resulting audio sounds like it is missing some life or body, you can try increasing the Quality setting. Quality settings C and D can take advantage of multicore processors to provide fast, high quality offline processing.

If you still hear undesirable artifacts in your results, you can try adjusting the Artifact Control slider. If you hear a musical noise artifact (the watery digital 'space monkey' artifact common to FFT-based denoisers), move the slider more to the right (away from Musical noise). If you hear a gating artifact (like pumping or surges of background noise), move the slider more to the left (away from Gating).

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Manual/Adaptive

Manual mode requires the user to train the De-noise module using Learn button. In this mode, the noise profile does stays fixed for the duration of processing.

Adaptive mode will allow the De-noise module to adjust its noise profile based on changes over time in the incoming audio. In this mode, RX will analyze incoming audio for the specified learning time, decide what is noise and what is desired audio material, and adjust its noise profile accordingly. Adapting noise profiles can work well with noise sources that are constantly evolving, particularly in post-production film settings or recordings from outdoor environments. This takes some more memory and computational power, but is helpful for tackling noise that shifts slightly over time (like the sound of street traffic or ocean waves).

For most stationary noise, however, finding a good noise profile manually will yield excellent results. Using Manual mode gives you more control over what makes up your noise profile.

Learn

De-noise needs to learn the type of noise you want to remove from the recording to give you the best results. To train the De-noise module, identify a section of the recording that contains only noise, without any useful audio signal. Often these places are at the beginning or end of a file, but may also be during pauses or breaks in speech.

Select the longest section of noise you can find (ideally a few seconds), then hit the Learn button. This will teach the De-noise module the noise profile of your file.

Note: You can use keyboard shortcuts Control-Shift-4 on a PC or Command-Shift-Option-4 on a Mac in order to train RX's de-noise based on your current selection.

Learning a Noise Profile From More Than One Selection

In the RX standalone application, it is possible to create a spectral profile from multiple isolated selections. This is useful if you have a file where it’s impossible to select enough audio where only noise is present to build the profile.

For example, if you are trying to restore a file where someone is speaking over noise, you can select noise in frequencies where none of the voice is present at any given time. If you select enough of this noise with the Lasso or Brush selection tools, you can create an accurate noise profile that will let you get good results with De-noise. You can create more than one selection at a time by holding Shift and making a selection.

Select noise anywhere you can to build a better noise profile.

This feature is only available in the RX standalone application because it requires using RX’s spectral selection tools as well as accurate calculation of the time and frequency of the selected areas.

If you are unable to create a full noise profile with multiple selections, RX can try to build a reasonable noise profile out of your existing profile. If you have an incomplete noise profile, RX will ask you to if you want it to complete the profile.

For example, if you can only capture a low frequency rumble below 100 Hz, some broadband noise between 200 Hz and 5000 Hz, and all the noise above 8000 Hz, RX can fill in the gaps for you.

Building a profile from multiple selections gives you some flexibility,
and RX will guess any noise you missed.

Threshold (Noisy/Tonal)

Controls the amplitude separation of noise and useful signal levels.

Higher threshold settings reduce more noise, but also suppress low-level signal components. Lower threshold preserves low-level signal details, but can result in noise being modulated by the signal. Threshold elevation can be done separately for tonal and random noise parts. A good default is 0 dB.

If background noise changes in amplitude over time (like traffic noise or record surface noise), raise the Threshold to accommodate for the changes.

Reduction (Noisy/Tonal)

Controls the desired amount of noise suppression in decibels.

Spectral De-noise can automatically separate noise into tonal parts (such as hum, buzz or interference) and random parts (such as hiss). The user can specify the amount of suppression for these parts separately (e.g. in some situations it can be desirable to reduce only unpleasant buzz while leaving unobjectionable constant hiss). Strong suppression of noise can also degrade low-levels signals, so it's recommended to apply only as much suppression as needed for reducing the noise to levels where it becomes less objectionable.

Quality

Affects the quality and computational complexity of the noise reduction. This selection directly affects CPU usage. RX's Spectral De-noise module offers four algorithms that vary in processing time.

• A is the least CPU intensive process and is suitable for realtime operation. It reduces musical noise artifacts by time smoothing of the signal spectrum.
• B achieves more advanced musical noise suppression by using adaptive 2D smoothing (both time and frequency). It is more CPU intensive and has more latency, but can still run in realtime on most machines.
• C adds multiresolution operation for better handling of signal transients and even fewer musical noise artifacts. It is a very CPU intensive algorithm and can only run in realtime on faster multicore machines.
• D adds high-frequency synthesis for reconstruction of signal details buried in noise. The speed of algorithm D is similar to algorithm C.

Artifact Control

Determines how much noise reduction will depend upon either spectral subtraction or wide band gating.

With lower values, noise reduction will rely upon spectral subtraction, which can more accurately separate noise from the desired audio signal, but can yield musical noise artifacts, resulting in a 'chirpy' or 'watery' sound during heavy processing.

With higher values, the noise reduction will rely more heavily upon wider band gating which will have fewer musical noise artifacts, but sound more like broadband gating, resulting in bursts of noise right after the signal falls below the threshold.

Noise Spectrum display

The Noise Spectrum display shows useful information during both playback and when the noise reduction process is being applied.

Color legend

• Gray (Input): spectrum of input audio signal
• White (Output): spectrum of the denoised output audio signal
• Orange (Noise Profile): the learned noise profile plus offset from the Threshold control
• Yellow (Residual Noise): desired noise floor after denoising, can be controlled by Reduction
• Blue (Reduction Curve): manual weighting of the noise reduction across the spectrum

Reduction Curve

If you need to improve your results, you can make adjustments to the amount of noise reduction across the frequency spectrum. This helps improve clarity in higher frequencies, aggressively address low frequency rumble, or otherwise tailor the processing to your audio.

You can create a useful Reduction Curve by creating a couple of points on the spectrum, and then adjusting their positions. Lower points push the noise floor down. Higher points bring the noise floor up. The smoothness of the curve can be adjusted with the Smoothing control.

• Reduction Curve: this feature allows for fine tuning of the reduction spectrum with up to 26 edit points. This enables the user to customize the amount of noise reduction being applied across different frequency regions. Higher curve values mean less reduction, lower curve values mean more reduction.
• Add an edit point: left-click, displayed as gray box along envelope curve
• Remove an edit point: right-click or drag it outside the screen
• Reset: this will remove all edit points
• Smoothing: this controls the amount of interpolation between your reduction curve points, allowing for sharper or more gradual edits

For example, if you wanted to reduce some low HVAC rumble but preserve some energy in higher frequencies, you could drag the curve’s leftmost point down a little bit, then create a point around 5 kHz and drag it up a bit. /how-to-hear-yourself-while-recording-on-garageband-ipad.html.

Note: you can axis-lock reduction curve points by holding Shift while dragging them, and get very fine control over positioning by holding Control/Command.

FFT size (ms)

Selects the time and frequency resolution of the processing.

Higher FFT sizes give you more frequency bands allowing you to cut noise between closely spaced signal harmonics, or cut steady-state noise harmonics without affecting adjacent signals. Lower FFT sizes allow for faster response to changes in the signal and produce fewer noisy echoes around transient events in the signal.

Note: Whenever the FFT size is changed, it is recommended that the De-noise module’s Learn feature is run again because the old noise profile was taken at a different FFT size and therefore becomes inaccurate.

Multi-res

Enables multi-resolution processing for the selected algorithm type.

When you select the Multi-res checkbox, the signal is analyzed in realtime and the most appropriate FFT size is chosen for each segment of the signal. This is done to minimize the smearing of transients and at the same time achieve high frequency resolution where it is needed.

Note: the FFT size control does not have any effect in multiresolution mode as the FFT resolution is selected automatically. The noise profile does not need to be re-learned when switching to multi-resolution mode.

Algorithm

Selects the smoothing algorithm for the removal of random ripples ('musical noise' artifacts) that can occur in the spectrogram when processing your audio. The strength of smoothing is controlled by the Smoothing slider.

• The Simple algorithm performs independent noise gating in every frequency channel of FFT. Release time of sub-band gates is controlled by the Release slider. This is a fast algorithm with small latency that is suitable for real-time operation.
• Advanced and Extreme algorithms perform joint time-frequency analysis of the audio signal which results in better quality and fewer 'musical noise' artifacts. These algorithms have higher latency and computational complexity.

Smoothing

Controls the reduction of musical noise artifacts which can be a result of heavy denoising. Musical noise is caused by random statistical variations of noise spectrum that cause random triggering of sub-band gates. These artifacts are sometimes described as 'chirpy', 'watery', or 'space monkey' sounds left behind during the noise reduction process.

Synthesis

Synthesizes high frequency material after denoising.

When Synthesis is set to a value greater than zero, signal harmonics are synthesized after denoising. The synthesized harmonics remain at the level of the noise floor, and serve to fill in gaps in high frequencies caused by processing.

Increasing Synthesis can increase the sense of life and air in processed audio. Too much Synthesis may cause apparent distortion in the signal.

Enhancement

Enhances signal harmonics that fall below the noise floor.

Enhancement predicts a signal’s harmonic structure and places less noise reduction in areas where possible signal harmonics could be buried in noise. This aids in preserving high-frequency signal harmonics that may be buried and not detected otherwise. It can make the resulting signal brighter and more natural sounding, but high values of harmonic enhancement can also result in high-frequency noise being modulated by the signal.

Masking

Reduces the depth of noise reduction where you wouldn’t perceive any effect from it.

If you need to cut very high, inaudible frequencies, set this to 0. Otherwise, leave this at 10.

Masking enables a psychoacoustic model that dynamically controls suppression amount to facilitate the use of softer suppression where noise is subjectively inaudible. When noise in certain regions is calculated to be inaudible, this feature prevents any signal processing in these regions. This potentially reduces amount of processing done to the signal and may positively affect overall signal integrity. The position of the slider controls the influence of psychoacoustic model on suppression levels.

Note: when this slider is set to 0, the feature is turned off, and the amount of noise suppression is uniformly governed to the yellow curve in spectrum analyzer (more precisely — by the difference between the yellow curve and orange curve).

Whitening

Shapes the noise floor after processing to be more like white noise.

Whitening modifies the amount of noise reduction (shown by the yellow curve) applied at different frequencies to shape the spectrum of the residual noise.

When Whitening is zero, the suppression is uniform at all frequencies, as controlled by Reduction (tonal/broadband) sliders, and the suppressed noise has a similar spectral shape to the original noise. When Whitening is maximal, the desired shape of suppressed noise floor is made close to white, so that residual noise has more neutral sound.

Changing the noise floor balance with Whitening can help prevent gaps from over-processing, but an unnaturally white noise floor can introduce problems like noise modulation when editing or mixing with other noises from a unique space (like a set location).

Knee

Controls how surgical the algorithm's differentiation is between the signal and noise.

This slider controls the sharpness of the gating knee in the denoising process. With higher values, transitions in the De-noise are more abrupt and can become prone to errors in the detection of the signal with respect to the noise. When the sharpness is reduced, the denoising becomes more forgiving around the knee, and applies less attenuation to signals that are only slightly below the threshold. This may result in a lower depth of noise reduction, but can also have fewer artifacts.

Release (ms)

Selects the release time of sub-band noise gates in milliseconds.

Longer release times can result in less musical noise, but may also reduce or soften the signals initial transients or reverb tails after the signals decay.

Note: the Release control is only available when the Simple algorithm is selected.

Did some audio recording and ended up having a noisy recording? You might still be able to save the audio with these restoration techniques, so don’t throw that audio away yet.

Perhaps you had a video recorded and the audio is so noisy that you are looking for how to remove noise from the video.

In this post, I’ll show you a few methods to reduce noise from your audio or video

Before I start with the article, I just want to introduce you to a software called Drum Xtract. It’s a software that helps remove musical elements from an audio recording (usually drums). And can be used to tighten up sound elements within a mix as well. You can read about it here: How to remove drums from a song.

We will go through these few topics:

1. How to reduce noise with Audacity for free.
2. Remove noise from video recordings.
3. Using a denoiser VST with Adobe Audition and other softwares.
4. Advanced noise reduction techniques with iZotope RX.
5. Best practices when it comes to recording audio outdoors.

First of all, you must understand that it’s impossible to remove 100% of the noise from a recorded audio. It’s not possible. Even if it is, your recorded audio will most likely be unusable, due to the diminished quality.

Many people are also looking for quick ways to remove vocals from audio. While that’s not entirely impossible to do, it usually renders not so good results.

I suggest people who want to remove vocals from music to buy a karaoke version music instead.

Alright, now that you’re ready, let’s go!

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Audacity – A freeware audio editor that every producer should have installed

Audacity is a popular freeware audio software that runs on the PC or Mac. It’s free.

It’s an amazing piece of software that does nearly everything a good audio editor like Adobe Audition can do. It does noise reduction really well too.

If you’re looking for a quick solution to reduce some noise from one or two audio files, Audacity would be good for you.

Step 1 – Drag Audio Into Audacity

Get your audio into Audacity. This is easily done by simply drag and drop your audio file into Audacity.

Audacity accepts audio file formats such as wav, mp3 and more. For editing, you’ll want to edit in wav. I’ve used an interview audio recording to illustrate the steps to come.

Step 2 – Learn The Unwanted Noise

Select the background noise

Find a section of the audio that only has the background audio.

Generally, the longer you can find the better. What we are doing is to select a section of background noise which we want reducing from the entire audio recording.

For my case, I found a fair 1-second background audio in the beginning portion of the audio recording before the interview speech came in.

Choose noise removal

After selecting, hover over to ‘Effects > Noise Removal’.

Get noise profile

Click on ‘Get Noise Profile’.

Doing this actually allows the Noise Removal effect to learn the noise selection you highlighted. This prepares the noise removal software to remove audio.

Step 3 – Reducing Noise

Listened to enough annoying noise yet? Time to remove it.

This time, highlight the whole audio file or select the parts of the audio you want the background audio reduced.

Using the parameters here can really change output sound

Utilizing the parameters correctly in ‘Step 2’ of the Noise Removal effect can give you the difference in the effectiveness of sound output you get. It’s important to understand them

• Noise Reduction (db): This is how much reduction you do based on the noise profile you captured earlier. I usually go between 10 – 25 to preserve the audio’s naturalness.
• Sensitivity (dB): How sensitive in dB the reduction is done. The higher this is, the more noise it reduces but the more ‘artifacts’ you’ll get in your audio.
• Frequency Smoothing (Hz): This option here is helpful for smoothing out artifacts you hear in the audio. Using the frequency, smoothen out the noise reduction. For instance, if you’re removing lots of low-frequency rumbles, you want to smoothen at the lower frequencies.
• Attack/Decay Time (secs): Controls how fast the audio reduction kicks in and how soon it leaves the audio signal. I normally like a shorter attack time here.

Once you have the parameters set, ‘preview’ the audio file to hear how it’ll sound with the settings you made.

If it doesn’t sound like something you were aiming for, experiment changing the settings a little and then preview again. Once you get a denoising result that you want, click on OK to commit to the changes.

Prefer to watch a video? See how I do it in the video below:

I use Adobe Audition all the time for noise reduction. Most audio editors have audio reduction effects built in.

Most popular DAWs however, do not have it.

I was mixing audio for a documentary in Logic Studio on a Mac, when i realized I needed a denoising plugin to run inside Logic.

So I started testing noise reduction plugins that are available in the market. Having tried lots of them, I finally settled for iZotope RX. iZotope features a very nice denoising effect that works as a standalone and also as a VST/AU plugin.

Here’s a video of me denoising a noisy interview video using iZotope Denoiser as a plugin in Adobe Audition:

I get this question all the time.

The thing is it’s not that your video is noisy. It’s the audio that was recorded together with your video which is noisy.

This usually happens when you do a video recording on your camcorder or DSLR without a dedicated shotgun microphone like the Rode NTG2 or a suitable lavalier microphone.

There’s no way around it than to invest in a set of dedicated microphones and portable audio record to get good audio when recording videos.

DSLR takes good videos, but the in-built microphone is a nightmare for interviews

Anyhow, if you already got your recordings, don’t discard it yet. There is still hope of saving them… for now.

I’ll explain how I normally do the job of removing noise from audio.

Step 1 – Find A Way To Unlink Audio From Video

You need to find a way to unlink the noisy audio from your video. This is because you have to edit the audio, not actually the video itself.

I use Adobe Premiere Pro to do this. Adobe Premiere allows me to unlink audio, edit the audio in Adobe Audition and then have it saved automatically after I make changes in Adobe Audition.

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Step 2 – Do the Denoising within Adobe Audition

Once you click, ‘edit with Adobe Audition’, Audition will load with your audio file in it. Within Audition, I use can use it’s built-in noise reduction effect to remove the noise from the audio clip.

However, I prefer using iZotope RX Denoiser as it gives me better control over the noise that I want to reduce.

I’m using iZotope Denoiser as a VST in Adobe Audition

If you don’t have a 3rd party VST plugin like iZotope RX Denoiser, just use the built-in denoiser in Audition.

Once you’re done with the edit, just save and close the program.

Step 3 – Exporting Your Video

Back in Premiere Pro, the audio will be updated with the edits you have made. At this point, you’ll have to export your video, so just re-export your video with the now denoised audio clip.

In my opinion, the best noise reduction software in terms of price and ease of use would be iZotope RX.

iZotope RX, since the early days, comes with a multitude of other effects which you’ll find very useful for audio restoring projects. No matter if you’re into broadcasting, audio restoration works or simply a recording engineer looking to clean up your vocalist’s audio files, I guarantee that iZotope will be able to handle all of that.

I’ll briefly talk about the additional software functions that come with iZotope RX.

Note that while the version used in the screenshots below may be an earlier version, the concepts of using it still remains the same.

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The difference? Every new version usually has its algorithm optimized to be more efficient in CPU processing and to produce cleaner and higher sound quality.

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RX Denoiser

RX Denoiser works like most noise reduction effects. The advantage that RX Denoiser has over standard audio reduction effects is that it has different algorithms in which you can use to get better results for denoising. It also allows better control over the ‘artifacts’ which are normally left in your audio tracks after you process denoising effects.

In RX 4 you notice a fairly easier interface to use and also an addition of a ‘dialogue’ tab, which gives you more control over denoising audio for dialogues.

RX Spectral Analyser

RX4 Spectral Analyser

Spectral Analyser is another effect which can be really useful if you do audio work for broadcast TV.

With Spectral Analyser, you don’t edit on waveforms but on spectral frequencies. This allows you to zoom in into noise audio frequencies and remove sounds, for instance, a single chair squeak during an interview recording. Drops and cuts in audio can also be fixed. The effect accomplishes this by collecting audio sounds around the problem area.

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Try it and you’ll notice it’s a little like ‘photo-shopping‘.

RX DeClipper

Does what its name implies. Removes clipping that happens in a recording.

This effect has saved me many times when I recorded an actor who suddenly screamed in her role, causing my the audio recordings to clip.

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RX DeClicker, RX DeHum

Declicker is great when using it to restore things like old tapes and I found DeHum especially useful when trying to repair a concert sound recording which had lots of hum, due to the audio hardware setup.

Having done many recording outdoors at noisy locations and getting into trouble, here is a list of best practices to put in mind when recording outdoors or in situations when noise is inevitable.

1. Always record up to a minute of the location. – When I was part of an audio crew, recording a film. We always recorded 1 minute worth of the room noise before we started rolling for real. This gives us a 1-minute noise profile which we can use for denoising audio during post-production.
2. Use Shotgun Or Lavalier Microphones – Different microphones work in different scenarios. Shotgun microphones generally give a more natural sound compared to lavalier microphones, but depending on the situation, sometimes it’s wiser to use a lavalier to record audio.
3. Invest in Good Isolated Headphones– One of the most important things when recording audio outdoors is to have well-isolated headphones which you can monitor audio from.
4. Take several takes – Do as many takes as possible and keep every take whether good or bad. That way you’ll have unlimited tracks which you can cross edit, eventually constructing a clean audio clip.

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Did I miss any best practices when recording outdoors and when dealing with noisy audio files? Let me know in the comment box below:

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