Re: Cleaning up recordings with background noise

["Rob Danielson" danielson_audio]

Hi Desiree-
Not to dissuade people from providing fresh answers to your 
questions, I want to mention that one can quickly access list 
members' previous thoughts around this topic using the list archive:
http://tinyurl.com/y35j5xm After you get a sense of what you're most 
interested in, you can create a refined archive search by add adding 
terms like "EQ," "Sound Soap," traffic," etc.  :-) Rob D.

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>Hi group,
>
>I have recordings that I would like to clean up some of the 
>background noise (mainly loud highway traffic) so I can have better 
>looking sonograms.
>
>Any advice on the best way to do this? I have a suite of software I 
>could use, Raven lite, audacity, wavepad. I've played around with 
>noise removal profiling but it seems to just warp the recording as 
>whole, bird song included.
>
>What's worked for you? Any advice from acoustic researchers, 
>professionals or hobbyists is appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>Desiree


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