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Subject:Noise reduction? Posted by: marscaleb Date:9/19/2013 1:03:20 PM So I grew up using Cool Edit, which later became Adobe Audition. Well the ye olde copy I used to use does not operate properly on my new computer, so it looks like now I'm going to use the Sound Forge that came with my copy of Movie Studio. I'm still figuring out the details, which overall isn't hard to do. But there's one thing I can't quite find. A noise reduction. The way it worked in cool edit was that I could highlight a selection "blank" audio that contained nothing but the background noise my mic picked up. (I could select regular audio but it worked better this way.) I then brought up the command's dialogue box and scanned the selection, and it generated a noise profile for the background noise. I then closed the dialogue and selected the whole sound file and then ran the command, using the noise sample it had gathered. It then removed all that background noise, and was very good at it too. But I can find no comparable feature in Sound Forge. I do see a "noise gate" but this seems to only silence the portions that should be silence; it doesn't (seem to) reduce noise from the actual sound. I also found that it clipped out portions of the sound I want to keep where it got too quiet. How do I properly remove that slight fuzzy background noise that gets picked up by my equipment? Sound Forge version 10.0
Subject:RE: Noise reduction? Reply by: Iacobus Date:9/19/2013 1:32:15 PM Noise Reduction was in the Pro version only, not Studio (or earlier). :(
Subject:RE: Noise reduction? Reply by: marscaleb Date:9/19/2013 3:02:33 PM FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU--- Well at least I have an option to actually buy a copy of Sound Forge, unlike the Adobe racket.

So I grew up using Cool Edit, which later became Adobe Audition. Well the ye olde copy I used to use does not operate properly on my new computer, so it looks like now I'm going to use the Sound Forge that came with my copy of Movie Studio.

I'm still figuring out the details, which overall isn't hard to do. But there's one thing I can't quite find. A noise reduction.

The way it worked in cool edit was that I could highlight a selection "blank" audio that contained nothing but the background noise my mic picked up. (I could select regular audio but it worked better this way.) I then brought up the command's dialogue box and scanned the selection, and it generated a noise profile for the background noise. I then closed the dialogue and selected the whole sound file and then ran the command, using the noise sample it had gathered. It then removed all that background noise, and was very good at it too.

But I can find no comparable feature in Sound Forge. I do see a "noise gate" but this seems to only silence the portions that should be silence; it doesn't (seem to) reduce noise from the actual sound. I also found that it clipped out portions of the sound I want to keep where it got too quiet.

How do I properly remove that slight fuzzy background noise that gets picked up by my equipment?

Sound Forge version 10.0