Suggestions for Cleaning up Audio in this clip

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Suggestions for Cleaning up Audio in this clip

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7IXq1QDYaU&feature=youtu.be

Hello Creative Minds,

I'm working a remote editing gig for a fellow wanting to create a video lecture series. In this clip, I sampled out the noisy and distracting Background ambience of the room he's in. Unfortunately, now this man sounds like he's talking thru an underground speaker from across the playground...

Audio's not my forte in FC Studio. Any suggestions to correct this clip's audio track?

Thanks a million, folks!

Soundtrack Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Mar 19, 2013 10:08 AM

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Answer 1

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Mar 19, 2013 6:31 PM in response to FilmsfromtheFuture

Often the very noise you wish to remove is directly in the frequencies of human voice. The more you remove the noise, the more you screw up the voice.

Play with specific frequency dampening, but if it is general "white noise", you just supress it some and live with the result.

Also, sometimes a noise gate can deal with really low level noise.

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fwiw- for the next series of lectures, get him to invest in good microphones and have them well placed in the room.

I often record talks in a room where the a/c noise is distracting. By good placement of mics I can reduce that crud to well below the irritation threashold...

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