Regular old noise Reduction? Can it do? -SpectraLayers Pro

Subject:Regular old noise Reduction? Can it do? Posted by: Doug_Marshall Date:8/3/2012 5:31:38 PM I wish I were master of the non-obvious but I can't figure out how you would do traditional noise reduction reduction with this product. There must be a way! It seems like it could be great, but I'm completely stumped. I'm talking about regular old background noise where I have plenty of noisy "silence" from which a noise print (or whatever SpectraLayers would call it) could be defined. Can this tool do this? I realize it excels at trickier types of NR. One bright spot: I finally succeeded in splitting my files into two clean frequency bands! I realize this isn't what most people need to do, but it works much, much better than trying to do it in Sound Forge.
Subject:RE: Regular old noise Reduction? Can it do? Reply by: D'Anne Date:8/4/2012 12:17:31 AM Check out the help pages. There is a noise tool that you can use to isolate low-level noise. I found the whole interface a bit klunky - I'm so used to Vegas/Acid/SndForge. Worked pretty good for me. (my trial is over now - can't reproduce it for you).
Subject:RE: Regular old noise Reduction? Can it do? Reply by: Doug_Marshall Date:8/4/2012 9:56:44 AM Thanks for the encouragement. I'm used to the interface of the other products, too, and am hopeful that more video demos will be forthcoming - something other than siren removal, as impressive as it is.
Subject:RE: Regular old noise Reduction? Can it do? Reply by: Paul Masters Date:8/27/2012 9:45:00 AM Hello: As I remember, at the end of the WEBcast, he shows noise removal. You select the noise by painting while in 'learning' mode, then paint the area you want it removed from. I think there is a way to do area selection, but I didn't get the hang of that. My trial has expired as well. Hope this helps. Paul Masters
Subject:RE: Regular old noise Reduction? Can it do? Reply by: Doug_Marshall Date:8/27/2012 3:53:18 PM I don't get it either. As demo'd it works fine, sort of. By that I mean that 'painting' is a very approximate art form when it comes to selecting an entire area.The result is all kinds of chirps and artifacts in the background that I know an area selection could largely prevent. I'm either missing how to select an area while registering noise, or I would say SpectraLayers is not the tool for traditional background noise reduction. The maddening thing is that it seems like it should be amazing but, instead, it's quite frustrating. If anybody can offer a tip, please do!
Subject:RE: Regular old noise Reduction? Can it do? Reply by: Klay Date:9/13/2012 10:07:20 AM I watched the hour-long webinar again and unless it is a tone, hum or similar, I can't see how to do broadband noise removal--say like good old hissssss--either. The Neil Armstrong page is pretty useless as well. Please, Sony.

Subject:Regular old noise Reduction? Can it do?

Date:8/3/2012 5:31:38 PM

I wish I were master of the non-obvious but I can't figure out how you would do traditional noise reduction reduction with this product. There must be a way! It seems like it could be great, but I'm completely stumped. I'm talking about regular old background noise where I have plenty of noisy "silence" from which a noise print (or whatever SpectraLayers would call it) could be defined.

Can this tool do this? I realize it excels at trickier types of NR.

One bright spot: I finally succeeded in splitting my files into two clean frequency bands! I realize this isn't what most people need to do, but it works much, much better than trying to do it in Sound Forge.