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Noise Reduction in Audacity 2.0

NostalgiaTunez

Joined: Jul 22 2012

So today I was recording my first guitar song (for YT and you lovely people ^^), and I had some problems editing it. I am using Audacity 2.0 at the moment for my editing software, and had everything squared away except for problems with noise reduction. I could get rid of all the noise while the guitar was not playing, but when it was, it sounded somewhat wobbly after each note was played and sustained using these settings: Noise Reduction: 36 dB, Sensitivty: 0 dB, Frequency: 290 Hz. I used an H2 Zoom to record too by the way. So I am just wondering, are their certain settings that you have to use for guitar recordings on Audacity for nr? Or am I better off looking at other noise reduction software for that portion of editing?

You're better off not using

auriplane

Joined: Sep 06 2008

You're better off not using noise reduction, and recording somewhere less noisy. Or, failing that, leaving the noise in your recording (IMO).

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Ah, ok. I'll keep it in mind

NostalgiaTunez

Joined: Jul 22 2012

Ah, ok. I'll keep it in mind for future. Probably need to tweak how I record too. I suppose for this one I'll just upload it with the noise and do better with the future ones. Do you think if I am recording the video with the laptop that I should do it separately from the audio recording as well to reduce noise?

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I'm not sure. Why would that

auriplane

Joined: Sep 06 2008

I'm not sure. Why would that reduce noise? Does the laptop fan come on to encode video or something?

Anyway, test it out! If it does reduce noise, then great :-D

BTW, as you may already know, there aren't really any rules to audio stuff--it's just "whatever sounds good, is good". So you don't have to listen to me about the noise reduction thing. But in my experience NR is pretty destructive to audio. Whenever I start thinking I like NR, I listen to the original without NR, and the one without always sounds better. So I don't use it.

But if you do, you could try using it to *reduce* noise, not *remove* noise. NR will probably degrade the audio less when you use it more subtly!

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Auriplane!!

Would be interesting if we

karathrow

Joined: Oct 26 2010

Would be interesting if we could hear your recordings with/without the noise to hear what youre hearing.

If I get a chance I'll throw

NostalgiaTunez

Joined: Jul 22 2012

If I get a chance I'll throw em up here tomorrow so you can see.

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Electric? If you have noise

Giogiogio4

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Joined: Jun 10 2010

Electric?

If you have noise when your guitar is plugged in and your not playing then you need an outside source to remove it. Like a Noise Gate. I tend to use my "ZNR" on my Zoom pedal. But sometimes I do get noise ( either from a bad power outlet or Grounding issues somewhere ) And I tend to filter it out the best i can when it comes to "clean" guitars.

But if im doing distortion I will leave it. Depends on how bad it is. But If it's a Quiet part of a song or at the end of a note and I have the patience then i will cut the track and delete the sections where it should be quiet. Things like that Do stack up and once you hit their spot in a EQ they will show. I actually Just finished a Song with that issue.

When I EQ those kinds of things like "humming or Buzzing" I will Either Filter or EQ the higher freq because that's where they tend to hide around. They do make some Power cleaners for your outlets ( i need to pick one up )

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