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Subject:Noise Reduction Posted by: Harold M Date:8/21/2009 12:11:01 PM My question is really simple. How do I reduce a clicking background noise(I can isolate) in Sony Sound Forge? I use Vegas Movie Studio and like it. Bought the latest two versions even. Now I need to do a nice audio, and decided to move up from a freeware audio software. Got a trial version of Sound Forge and need to remove some background noise. After about 2 hours of searching the net, and being told by Sony's site to simply go to the Noise Reduction and capture the sound, I find out this "noise reduction" plug in is almost a 300 DOLLAR add on. And, after I gave up, and downloaded a trial, it beeps every 6 seconds! So, I go to the phone to call Sony to see if I really missed something, because nobody is going to try to sell you a 300 dollar plug in for a less than 100 dollar program. Right??? Unfortunately, THEY ARE OFF FOR THE DAY, and wont return till Monday. Somehow this seems rather bone headed to leave for a Friday, have no weekend service, then make the customer wait till Monday for his problem. Please tell me, am I so goofy that I cant find noise reduction on the menu of Sound Forge 9?
Subject:RE: Noise Reduction Reply by: rraud Date:8/21/2009 1:33:50 PM Sound Forge Audio Studio does NOT come bungled with the NR-2 plug-in.. The full version SF-9.0 does. The Click and Crackle removal tool in Noise Reduction 2.0 may or may not work depending on the severity of the click noise. Audio Studio does however come with a vinyl restoration tool which may or may not help removing the clicks.
Subject:RE: Noise Reduction Reply by: jumbuk Date:8/23/2009 6:29:58 PM When you say "which I can isolate", do you mean a single click (or a small number of clicks)? If there are only a small number of clicks, it may be faster and yield better results to just edit them out manually. To edit manually: if the click is in an otheriwse silent passgae, just replace it with silence. If it is part of the audio you want to keep, there are a few options. Maybe reducing the volume of the events during the click will be enough. Alternatively, finding a similar piece of audio from somewhere else in the recording and patching it in may be better. For example, if it is a song, you might be able to find a similar piece from another verse or chorus. If the clicks are more frequent, the Sony vinyl resoration plugin may help. You only really need the NR plugin for continuous noise (hum or tape hiss).

Subject:Noise Reduction

Posted by: Harold M

Date:8/21/2009 12:11:01 PM

My question is really simple. How do I reduce a clicking background noise(I can isolate) in Sony Sound Forge?

I use Vegas Movie Studio and like it. Bought the latest two versions even. Now I need to do a nice audio, and decided to move up from a freeware audio software. Got a trial version of Sound Forge and need to remove some background noise. After about 2 hours of searching the net, and being told by Sony's site to simply go to the Noise Reduction and capture the sound, I find out this "noise reduction" plug in is almost a 300 DOLLAR add on. And, after I gave up, and downloaded a trial, it beeps every 6 seconds!

So, I go to the phone to call Sony to see if I really missed something, because nobody is going to try to sell you a 300 dollar plug in for a less than 100 dollar program. Right???

Unfortunately, THEY ARE OFF FOR THE DAY, and wont return till Monday. Somehow this seems rather bone headed to leave for a Friday, have no weekend service, then make the customer wait till Monday for his problem.

Please tell me, am I so goofy that I cant find noise reduction on the menu of Sound Forge 9?

Subject:RE: Noise Reduction

Reply by: rraud

Date:8/21/2009 1:33:50 PM

Sound Forge Audio Studio does NOT come bungled with the NR-2 plug-in..
The full version SF-9.0 does. The Click and Crackle removal tool in Noise Reduction 2.0 may or may not work depending on the severity of the click noise.
Audio Studio does however come with a vinyl restoration tool which may or may not help removing the clicks.

Subject:RE: Noise Reduction

Reply by: jumbuk

Date:8/23/2009 6:29:58 PM

When you say "which I can isolate", do you mean a single click (or a small number of clicks)?

If there are only a small number of clicks, it may be faster and yield better results to just edit them out manually.

To edit manually: if the click is in an otheriwse silent passgae, just replace it with silence. If it is part of the audio you want to keep, there are a few options. Maybe reducing the volume of the events during the click will be enough. Alternatively, finding a similar piece of audio from somewhere else in the recording and patching it in may be better. For example, if it is a song, you might be able to find a similar piece from another verse or chorus.

If the clicks are more frequent, the Sony vinyl resoration plugin may help. You only really need the NR plugin for continuous noise (hum or tape hiss).