Is there a way to eliminate or reduce wind noise while retaining voice?

another suggestion:

In the Effects tab/Audio/EQ you'll find a 'Rumble Reducer' (never let Michael Buffer find out 😁 ) …

Wind often creates just those low 'bumps', and less high pitched 'hiss' ...

Or, use the Graphic EQ, to pick out the voice only (usually ~3-4kHz) and lower the rest .....

Mickey Oksner wrote:

Is there a filter/effect that will reduce wind noise while retaining voice reception?

HI -

Are you talking about general wind noise as in "Wind in the Background" or are you referring to wind which is directly hitting the microphone capsule and thus causing extreme plosives and distortion.

In latter scenario, there is nothing that you can do aside from 'living with it' or record it again.

The first scenario; one can use a either an advanced denoiser which will literally remove the noise from the audio signal. In the case of wind, this would probably remove lots of the vocal too and cause unwanted side effects. I myself would use a gate (AKA Noise Gate) or expander effect. The gate sets a threshold @ which it literally opens and lets the audio signal pass thru'. One would set that threshold to open when the person is talking. And close when he is not. In most cases the wind will be a little quieter in level than the speech (If the material has been recorded correctly).

There are numerous of cheap and perfect functioning gates available as audio units.

Perhaps you can find some free, perhaps not.

If @ one point you want to get something which is really good and highly intuitive, I suggest you look into the FabFilter company.

They make great audio products @ a very fair rate and are the most intuitive you can find. But try the free ones first.

http://www.fabfilter.com/shop/?currency=eur&vat=1

Removing noise is about the most nasty and difficult thing, I as an audio engineer can think of. So don't expect this to be easy if it has to sound great ;-)

I know this is an old post but in FCP X 10.2.1 (probably in older versions too) there's an audio effect called "Remove Low Frequencies".

I have used this to some good effect - I even added the effect twice on one clip and was surprised how good it was at reducing the wind noise without distorting the voice too much.

It's no substitute for good recording, of course, but it can help if you're in a tight spot.

The effect has various adjustments available, but the default works quite well too.

Andy

One possible free solution: download Audacity and see whether can isolate the wind noise and apply the noise reduction effect based on that noise sampling (noise print).

Russ

I gather you didn't try Audacity.