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Re: Noise reduction

Subject: Re: Noise reduction
From: "Rob Danielson" danielson_audio
Date: Sun Mar 1, 2009 8:08 am ((PST))
Both Izo and Soap seem to have a very hard time
fore-grounding the speech.  The slightest amount
of "watery-ness" both apps introduce plays havoc
with syllable intelligibility.  I played with it
a bit and it seems like that "bacon sizzle"
responds reasonably well to side chain de-essing
and then one can go after the annoying peaked
pitches and HF noise with parametric EQ. I think
the results could turn out more intelligible, but
then one has to have the ear for the language to
judge that. Rob D.

  =3D =3D =3D =3D =3D

At 11:39 PM -0800 2/28/09, Lou Judson wrote:
>Agreed, it can be messy. I had to try it with Izotope RX to see if it=A0
>can do better:
>
><files.me.com/loujudson/dv9hlx.mp3>
>It's hard to say after listening too close for a while... is this=A0
>more natural? I didn't get it quite so severely quiet, and it skips=A0
>on the bigger scratches so I didn't take them out.
><L>
>Lou Judson =80 Intuitive Audio
>415-883-2689
>
>
>On Feb 28, 2009, at 11:13 PM, Dan Dugan wrote:
>
>>  Bernie, you wrote,
>>
>>>   The audio clip contains a 30 second example of the original
>>>  wax cylinder recording followed by the same clip cleaned up.
>>>  Considering the quality of the original very few artifacts remain=A0
>>>  when
>>>  compared with other options.
>>
>>  But all the naturalness is gone too, replaced by a strange robot-like
>>  quality. I've done quite a bit of noise reduction work, and I often
>>  hate myself in the morning. I get tuned into the noise, and it seems
>>  great to get rid of it, but later I realize that the cost was too=A0
>>  great.
>>
>>  -Dan Dugan
>
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