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Subject:Help with road noise filtering Posted by: wwaag Date:1/11/2013 12:08:40 PM I like to do road trip documentaries in which I use a couple of lav mics attached to the visors for recording conversation in addition to the video. The problem is to reduce the road noise while enhancing the vocal portions. My general approach has been to first reduce the low frequency content, apply noise reduction, enhance using some of the Izotope Compressor and EQ presets, and finally normalize to -27db. IMO, the results are pretty bad, especially when the recorded conversation is "soft", i.e. not very loud. Here is a link to a Dropbox file that contains three 3 sec clips (no voice, male voice, female voice) followed by my attempt at processing. https://www.dropbox.com/s/r37g5vk9j9tuj14/road%20noise.wav I would greatly appreciate any assistance. Thanks. wwaag Incidentally, my general workflow has been to do the main editing in Vegas Pro 12, create takes for each audio event, and then batch process in SF 10. Message last edited on1/11/2013 2:10:00 PM bywwaag.
Subject:RE: Help with road noise filtering Reply by: musicvid10 Date:1/11/2013 12:17:14 PM This was discussed last week: http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?ForumID=19&MessageID=845101

I like to do road trip documentaries in which I use a couple of lav mics attached to the visors for recording conversation in addition to the video. The problem is to reduce the road noise while enhancing the vocal portions. My general approach has been to first reduce the low frequency content, apply noise reduction, enhance using some of the Izotope Compressor and EQ presets, and finally normalize to -27db. IMO, the results are pretty bad, especially when the recorded conversation is "soft", i.e. not very loud.

Here is a link to a Dropbox file that contains three 3 sec clips (no voice, male voice, female voice) followed by my attempt at processing.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/r37g5vk9j9tuj14/road%20noise.wav

I would greatly appreciate any assistance. Thanks.

wwaag

Incidentally, my general workflow has been to do the main editing in Vegas Pro 12, create takes for each audio event, and then batch process in SF 10.