@@John_Thompson he is not even the first who does things like that - I watched a lot of noise reduction audio tutorials on youtube - none of them had real clear background noise that you can reduce - so many people full of shit
because it takes more than this basic step to really reduce the audio. I again got tricked into watching these useless tutorials with no evidence of them working
When following the directions in the video, I would always end up with an unusable file. And the reason is that while it DID reduce the noise, it also made the vocals sound tinny, or under water. To prevent this I found that using a Noise Reduction (db) level of about 34 and a Sensitivity of 1.50 did the trick.... all hiss or background noise is GONE, but also no tinny sound. While this may seem counter intuitive and flies in the face of the settings (and why) in the video, it did the trick.... and that is what matters. I am posting this just in case others ran into that problem. Cheers!
you are actually right. Noise Reduction (dB) means how much you want your noise be reduced. If it's 0, then, the output file would be the exactly the same. If you choose to too big, the output file would be reduced too much, while you own voice are also severely affected.
really unprofessional video, only explained one parameter out of three(noise reduction, sensitivity, frequency smoothing) and the only explained one is wrong.
So I was playing around with the slider for Noise Reduction and noticed that at 0 the background noise remain unchanged, and at 48, the background noise completely disappeared. Around 1:22 you talk about how the lower the value, the more the background noise will be reduced, and the higher the value, the more prominent the background noise will be. I believe it's the opposite, as in the higher the value, the more the background noise will reduce. Great video though. This was really helpful :D
Wow! I am 60 videos into YT and I used to use this incorrectly to remove 'silence' from my audio, and i used to cut out the background noise and breathing manually by fading in/out every segment between speech. This has cut my work down by alot, thank you!
just a tip. after recording you can hit ctrl+r and it will automatically remove the noise. I'm not sure if this would produce bad quality sound by skipping the steps to get the noise profile. But it works pretty good for me, probably depends on the noise. I'm using Windows 10 btw.
After checking so many videos on how to eliminate the background noise, this is the first and very accurate one that explains exactly that!! Great video, short and straight to the point. Well done!!
@@MDK22420 there probably bot comments lad i mean there this much people saying saved my life in a inaccuare audacity video and it doesnt even work just made littly reductued the entiren audio file for me didnt take out the bit i wanted out
Okay, Dusty, I am not sure if what I am asking is the same thing. What I want to do is to be able to record with Audacity, just from the computer and not have any noise in the background, like me speaking, or anything coming from the TV, or the phone ringing, or stuff like that recorded. What I want is basically what people used to be able to do in the '80's and 90's, with dual-cassette radios, where you can put a tape in one side for recording and a tape on the other side for playing, and then there is no other noise in the background that is recorded. It just records whatever is on that tape and just that. I want to be able to get a "Read aloud" file to read what I have written and record it, and not have any noise from what I am doing to be recorded. I think what happens when I record with Audacity is that whatever is recorded from the computer is recorded from the top and whatever is recorded from my end is recorded on the bottom. What I want to do is eliminate the bottom noise. Is what you described in this video the same thing as taking out the background noise on my end?
Your video was very helpful! I have some pretty bad background noise, and though the noise reduction effect doesn't remove all of it, the results are good enough for me.
I've always found the spectegram especially helpful when finding "nice silence" to sample... I've used it to tune out a persistent bird call by my window while recording a DnD game. Otherwise to say, nice concise explanation.
Thats because you have to do the the opposite of what the guy recommended you should take the noise reduction nob to the right not the left. Try it again with that in mind.
It doesn't work for me. Everytime I try to remove background noise, it doesnt actually remove anything. I even tried putting it down to 0 and still nothing.
You are simply a life-saver! I am a BA Journalism student in my final year, and I had to make a podcast about the lockdown, with home equipment. Thank you!
thank you so much, it worked! i was confused at first but basically you're capturing the background noise on its own then removing it from the rest of the file
Thank you for a very easy to use video. I appreaciate it. Regarding noise reduction outside of the studio, how could one reduce noise such as crows cawing and motorcycles whizzing around the park?
Yes, this certainly works for static noise and other background noise you maybe facing - For more updated tutorial on this topic go to my channel and watch a video on this for 2017
it works, btw how to remove instrumental/ music background from video ? there are some tutorial, but they use audacity 1.6 etc, they have noise removal but in my audacity, there are no noise removal, there is only noise reduction, so I havent found the solution yet
How!!! How does it work? It actually works, while companies that claim their software does it, it actually removes the audio using this technique, For Free? And this was 5 years ago, and still WORKS! Thank you so much for this. I have Autism and struggle with basic things like this, so thank you for helping me figure this issue out, something so small that has the easiest fix. Thank you for your help.
I cant believe this, I don't know how you figured this out but keep doing it! I was afraid I would never be able to post videos because of my mic until getting a new one but wow! Great job and you just saved me on my actual youtube account thankyou so much!!!
Wow thank you so much, I was attempting to do it myself without guidance and I thought I needed to buy a new mic. But following this it has helped a lot!
because he doesn't quite understand it himself. putting noise reduction at 0 makes no difference, putting it at 48 removes almost everything. he said the opposite thing.
Hi Dusty, thank you so much for explaining about the noise reduction on your video and for this reason I wanted to ask for your advice as I am getting an Electrical humming noise fro my Hi Fi. Let me first explain what I am trying to do and maybe then you will have a better idea. I am in the process of transferring all of my old cassettes and Minidiscs into mp3 by recording them on my iMac desktop and using the Audacity software to convert the signal to digital but I keep getting this Electrical humming noise from my HiFI just before any music starts. It only happens when I use the cassette player or the Minidisc and the noise is reduced if I lower the HiFi volume but if I lower the volume too much then the actual recoding levels will also be reduced at playback. I have tried various ways to reduce this humming noise by changing the volume levels on the Audacity when recording but it has not made much difference so after I saw your video I was wondering if you had any bright ideas for me trying to remove that background and very annoying humming sound. Thanks Dusty I sent you this message to your email address also. Regards John
Oh my word thank you so much! I am a small content creator and my next video recording was going to have too much feedback with background noise. I never fully understood how to use audacity but this really helped. Thank you so much!
Don’t take this the wrong way but I LOVE YOU MAN!!!! Thank you! I’m currently doing a radio story set in the world of RESIDENT EVIL with 20 actors and I’ve been stuck on the same episode for a month since I got a better mic. I can finally progress without having air sounds in the background! Thank you again!
Thanks for making this! I’m a beginner in Audacity but I’m also a aspiring voice actor and I really want to make my sound as crystal clear as possible. I have autism. so forgive me if my explanation for this isn’t very good.
Namaste Dusty Bhai, Seenu from India, Firstly thanks a lot for your kind tips on different motivational stuff... I have been watching you for many months and following your tips for my screen-casting. I use Camtasia 9 and Audacity for my Software tutorial podcasts (I train people on Python software) which involves screen recording and annotations. Since I live in an area which is surrounded by traffic, churches, mosques, schools, factories; my videos have been spoiled many times as I am about to finish them there is some kind of noise from the above said sources which gives me a spike in the sound file which cannot be flatten. It is taking many takes to finish video and in the due course lot of frustration I am experiencing. I tried going to a remote hill side to record a screen cast but wind is my enemy as it is directly blowing into my Yeti Blue mike, lack of enough power source etc problems. It started as a hiccup and in no time it became my nightmare. I can't afford building a soundproof booth or hiring a studio room. I've been thinking on this for months and years on how to overcome this problem as recording a screen cast with all the background noises will not sound professional. If it is just a bird chirping sound, that's fine..but it is street hawker shouts, vehicle horn sounds, regular prayer sounds from churches& mosques, near by residents' talk, neighbor's baby crying what not. I tried many things known to me, but nothing worked out. I am completely stalled without recording a single podcast for months crying and whining. Do you have any idea to better my situation and sound professional. I have already seen many people overtaking me with meager facilities. At least I have a good voice and confidence but lack of motivation with the above problem is stopping me. Some regular sounds from dawn to dusk: 5am: Azan from a nearby mosque..5 times daily 6am: Prayer bells from all of the homes around me.. 8am: Hawker shouts like this....Brinjal, Tomato, Coriander.. reads loudly 15 items without a breathe.. clickhere to see. 9am: Old scrap paper buyer: Highest decibel.. click here, 10am: Furniture repair-man 12 - 3pm: Juice vendor..check here 4pm: Ice Cream vendor..click-here 5pm: Kids from school...etc etc At one point I tried to make fun of those sounds quoting them contextually as and when those are heard.. But I thought to make it more professional. So I used to wait till the midnight to see everything/everybody/every creature settled..losing sleep, next day I feel day time fatigue, lack of concentration, depression etc Another problem is about language, since I am from India and not being a native speaker of English, I take little time to search for the right word when doing a screen cast even though I do not have mother tongue influence. Even my confidence level should be bettered as I have seen in many videos. Few inputs on what I am using for my podcasts.. 1. Blue Yeti Mike for voice 2. Camtasia 9 for screen recording 3. Audacity for audio 4. Lenovo E470 thinkpad windows-7 64bit, 16 GB RAM, 1TB SSD etc. If I use Audacity to reduce the noise, at the same point of audio disturbance my recorded voice also there, and its will be spoilt if I reduce the noise.........please help me Guru. My problem is not like a sound from an back ground air-conditioner, it is still bigger than that. So please address various sounds mentioned above. Frustration levels are at the peak coz of this. Thanks for the tips Bhai
Ty so much my man! For all the people still having problems: The Noise reduction (dB) has to be as high as possible and not as low - that worked for me even though i have tried 100 other things
That's a great video! Audacity is awesome. Note that since Audacity is not available for iPhone, I found the ByeNoise app very useful if you want to do that with no computer.
OMG! Thank you so much dude! Now I can record without having to tell my sister to shut up. Hopefully she doesn't get to loud. Or else she will be able to get heard by the recording because I breathed lightly like .01 CM from my mic and it sensed it but thats fiinneee
Hi, As i see you are using mac. Howto record computer and mic voice together in Audacity? I've tried in Linux and mac both are not possible. Any tricks or recommendation? Regards
Thank you for this. I'm so miffed with myself, I've basically been doing that but instead I select the whole audio file and then do a noise profile on that instead of just some background noise!
aaah at last someone who knows what there doing ..thanks you for this video mate. sorted all my problems in less than 3 minutes .thanks you. been taking months to sort this out. thanks bro.
Hello, really nice tutorial! I have a question though, I used the noise reduction as you've shown in this tutorial. The thing is, how do I take this "filtered" voice and import it into my .mp4 video? Any tool would really help me. Thanks!
Thanks Dusty! I've been trying to figure this out for a while and it worked like a charm. Very easy tutorial to follow, thank you. Except! To Rob Fowler, you're correct, sliding the bar all the way up to 48 db (all the way to the right) drops all the hiss in the background, but then you can tell that the voice might start sounding a little bit robotic, so in that case maybe set it to like 45 or 40? This is such an awesome trick!
Hi Dusty. I just experimented with an interview in a cafe thinking it would give me good atmospheric sound but I was wrong and now I want to increase the two main voices and reduce the voices and noise in the background at the cafe. I don't have any noise with just the background, well I could have a few seconds maybe, or one second possibly! Can you suggest what I could do? Many thanks, Annabel
Please help....I did EXACTLY as you said on the noise reduction, but still hear the "hiss" in my voice over. I can also see the thicker wave line in the file. Any suggestions?
Thank you so much :D I've spent hours trying to find a good tutorial for getting rid of background noise, I followed this and now my sound clip is near perfect! Thank you xxx
Thanks for the tutorial - Do you know of a tool that works dynamically? meaning that I can have the tool run when I start Windows, and it will reduce the background music and noise for each movie I am watching so I can hear the dialog clearly? Thanks!
Thank you soooo much, works great, i was getting annoyed with the extra background noise, even after closing the window, closing the windows worked about 5-10% with your tip it worked about 80-90%
so i use the method you showed and it worked well, but the sound level for the finish product seems low, how do i go about, to set the proper volume? like making my voice sound louder after removing the background noise? thanks!
any chance you know how to isolate a vocal or to further explain, lets say there is a consistent wind say from a beach, do you happen to know how to go about getting that out of audio. or kinda that car passing by sound?
This is fantastic........... eventhough i leave it as u said, i still dont get what i need, but the second part u show , i explore it and preview and i get what i want ............ thank you so much.. i just learn new thing today
Hi - great video! Really helpful! I'm reducing the noise that an airplane makes when you're inside of it - I recorded an interview for a radio show when onboard. I can easily follow the tutorial steps, but cannot set db, sensitivity and frequency correctly - the interviewee's voice comes out a bit artificial. Any tips on that maybe? Many thanks!!
When following the directions in the video, I would always end up with an unusable file. And the reason is that while it DID reduce the noise, it also made the vocals sound tinny, or under water. To prevent this I found that using a Noise Reduction (db) level of about 34 and a Sensitivity of 1.50 did the trick.... all hiss or background noise is GONE, but also no tinny sound. While this may seem counter intuitive and flies in the face of the settings (and why) in the video, it did the trick.... and that is what matters. I am posting this just in case others ran into that problem. Cheers!
2:48 - "As we can hear, it's a nice, crisp audio file."
There was no background noise to begin with.
Sooo true
@@John_Thompson he is not even the first who does things like that - I watched a lot of noise reduction audio tutorials on youtube - none of them had real clear background noise that you can reduce - so many people full of shit
@@Dark_Angel555 i have a video on audacity noise removal you can check it. trust me audacity is great for removing background noise.
Repeatedly my audio sounds as though I'm in a toilet, what am I doing wrong ????
because it takes more than this basic step to really reduce the audio. I again got tricked into watching these useless tutorials with no evidence of them working
When following the directions in the video, I would always end up with an unusable file. And the reason is that while it DID reduce the noise, it also made the vocals sound tinny, or under water. To prevent this I found that using a Noise Reduction (db) level of about 34 and a Sensitivity of 1.50 did the trick.... all hiss or background noise is GONE, but also no tinny sound. While this may seem counter intuitive and flies in the face of the settings (and why) in the video, it did the trick.... and that is what matters. I am posting this just in case others ran into that problem. Cheers!
that helped a lot, thanks man
Thank you so much for sharing this great tip. This is probably what everyone is looking for
Thanks so much!👍
My man
👍👍👍
At 1:42, I think you are mistaken. O dB noise reduction would be NO reduction. All the way to the right would be max in this case.
you are actually right. Noise Reduction (dB) means how much you want your noise be reduced. If it's 0, then, the output file would be the exactly the same. If you choose to too big, the output file would be reduced too much, while you own voice are also severely affected.
really unprofessional video, only explained one parameter out of three(noise reduction, sensitivity, frequency smoothing) and the only explained one is wrong.
Shut up both of you
Geo you might want to shut up first
oh really
So I was playing around with the slider for Noise Reduction and noticed that at 0 the background noise remain unchanged, and at 48, the background noise completely disappeared. Around 1:22 you talk about how the lower the value, the more the background noise will be reduced, and the higher the value, the more prominent the background noise will be. I believe it's the opposite, as in the higher the value, the more the background noise will reduce.
Great video though. This was really helpful :D
I found the same
Wow! I am 60 videos into YT and I used to use this incorrectly to remove 'silence' from my audio, and i used to cut out the background noise and breathing manually by fading in/out every segment between speech. This has cut my work down by alot, thank you!
Omg, thanks a lot! I wanted to figure this out because my PS4 Is literally a jet engine!
Hahahahaha
Same bro lol
Ikr lol
Lmao same here
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Works like a treat, Thanks!
I'm wondering if noise reduction mutes the hole audio or only the noise I don't want
7 years later and still saving someone's life. thank you so much!!!
Thanks, saved my day bro
ايه ده انت هنا يا هندسة 😂
اوبا مكنتش اتوقع انك تكون هنا 😹😹
just a tip. after recording you can hit ctrl+r and it will automatically remove the noise. I'm not sure if this would produce bad quality sound by skipping the steps to get the noise profile. But it works pretty good for me, probably depends on the noise. I'm using Windows 10 btw.
After checking so many videos on how to eliminate the background noise, this is the first and very accurate one that explains exactly that!! Great video, short and straight to the point. Well done!!
Except no its not, he gave you instructions on how to do the complete opposite, by getting the meter settings backwards.
@@MDK22420 there probably bot comments lad i mean there this much people saying saved my life in a inaccuare audacity video and it doesnt even work just made littly reductued the entiren audio file for me didnt take out the bit i wanted out
Okay, Dusty, I am not sure if what I am asking is the same thing.
What I want to do is to be able to record with Audacity, just from the computer and not have any noise in the background, like me speaking, or anything coming from the TV, or the phone ringing, or stuff like that recorded. What I want is basically what people used to be able to do in the '80's and 90's, with dual-cassette radios, where you can put a tape in one side for recording and a tape on the other side for playing, and then there is no other noise in the background that is recorded. It just records whatever is on that tape and just that.
I want to be able to get a "Read aloud" file to read what I have written and record it, and not have any noise from what I am doing to be recorded. I think what happens when I record with Audacity is that whatever is recorded from the computer is recorded from the top and whatever is recorded from my end is recorded on the bottom. What I want to do is eliminate the bottom noise.
Is what you described in this video the same thing as taking out the background noise on my end?
Your video was very helpful! I have some pretty bad background noise, and though the noise reduction effect doesn't remove all of it, the results are good enough for me.
How simply the seemingly complicated way of noise reduction explained!!! Thanks! Stay blessed forever!
god damn man you saved my podcast. you are the best
dont use God's name in vain
@@lfh950 lol
@@lfh950 god can eat my ass
I been looking for this type of tools for the passed few days with no success, until i found this video
A MILLION THANKS DUDE!
Wait, are you WarOwl?
+Samoclese Nope :)
for me you sound like CaptainSparklez
+Hedge Blockz Same
hes lying HE IS THE WAROWL
no he's not I just compared the two... They do sound similar though
I've always found the spectegram especially helpful when finding "nice silence" to sample... I've used it to tune out a persistent bird call by my window while recording a DnD game.
Otherwise to say, nice concise explanation.
Thank you so much. So simple straight to the point, no intro that’s long or anything. Thank you
lmao
Helpful, exactly what I was looking for, thank you! ♥
I'm having trouble. I'm doing everything shown here. and the background noise I'm trying to remove is my PC fans. but the noise still remains there.
+Zarikar gaming Some noises just cannot be removed due to the nature of them. Most noises can be reduced but not totally eliminated.
I guess you should record some silent moments before every video this will help audacity to differentiate between noise and rest of the recording
Thats because you have to do the the opposite of what the guy recommended you should take the noise reduction nob to the right not the left. Try it again with that in mind.
It actually worked thank you so much!! It's been hell trying to find out how to do this.
Base Note ur a legend thank u!!!!
Super helpful for my freelance gigs as well as my mantras on my channel here. Thank you so much!
It doesn't work for me. Everytime I try to remove background noise, it doesnt actually remove anything. I even tried putting it down to 0 and still nothing.
No, haha the higher the db the more noise is removed...
Thats the opposite of what he said in the video tho?
He says in the video at 1:38 "The further left you slide that slider the more that is reduced." All the way left is 0.
But it's fine I got it to work.
He said it wrong. Turn it up for more reduction.
You are simply a life-saver! I am a BA Journalism student in my final year, and I had to make a podcast about the lockdown, with home equipment. Thank you!
This gets rid of the sound but turns your voice into a robot.
I KNOW RIGHT
I have the same problem, have you found out how to fix that?
+Mightyimpact turn down the db
It's all about finding the right balance between noise reduction and robot voice. I set it at 10db and it was the sweet spot I think.
thank you so much, it worked! i was confused at first but basically you're capturing the background noise on its own then removing it from the rest of the file
FINALLY! Good explanations ! Thank you ! It's like 10th video watched to find out the perfect settings for this effect
Cool
Im gonna try this one day bro. Thanks for your tips.
You are my flippin' hero man I made content but it was shit but not anymore thnx to you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Me too!!
This video has singlehandedly improved 10 fold!!! Thank you SO much!!!
Skip to 0:50 to avoid annoying Radio DJ voice and unneeded intro. Great tutorial though. Thanks for posting.
a rude sentence saved by a nice compliment kind of LOL
Thank you for a very easy to use video. I appreaciate it. Regarding noise reduction outside of the studio, how could one reduce noise such as crows cawing and motorcycles whizzing around the park?
Will this work on removing static?
Yeah but change the noise reduction to 48 db
EinSteamUser it worked for me
Yes, this certainly works for static noise and other background noise you maybe facing - For more updated tutorial on this topic go to my channel and watch a video on this for 2017
thanks bro!! you legend!!
Yes.
Finally someone who makes a tutorial and doesn't have a voice like he's depressive. Thanks.
When I do repeat noise reduction it makes my voice all glitchy
it works,
btw how to remove instrumental/ music background from video ?
there are some tutorial, but they use audacity 1.6 etc, they have noise removal
but in my audacity, there are no noise removal, there is only noise reduction, so I havent found the solution yet
Great video thanks man!
Thanks for this. Great Audio by the way. What mic and editing tool are u using? Tnx
Thanks for creating a easy to follow quick video :)
Adobe audience failed me,and keeps on crashing...i think i'm gona use this program from now on!THANKS MAN!
Thanks!
Oh hello neon man
Congo for 1m
hey neon man
Abe to kya kr rha hai yaha
How!!! How does it work? It actually works, while companies that claim their software does it, it actually removes the audio using this technique, For Free? And this was 5 years ago, and still WORKS! Thank you so much for this. I have Autism and struggle with basic things like this, so thank you for helping me figure this issue out, something so small that has the easiest fix. Thank you for your help.
Your voice is awesome!
I cant believe this, I don't know how you figured this out but keep doing it! I was afraid I would never be able to post videos because of my mic until getting a new one but wow! Great job and you just saved me on my actual youtube account thankyou so much!!!
Uploaded on my mom's birthday!
THANK YOU SO MUCH, AS A VOICE ACTOR BACKGROUND NOISE HAS BEEN KILLING AUDITIONS FOR ME AND THIS HELPS GREATLY
Thanks so much! This cleaned it all up! U Rock, Cheers!
this feels like early youtube tutorial content, very nostalgic, i like
This is so helpful, and refreshingly concise. Thanks so much!
Wow thank you so much, I was attempting to do it myself without guidance and I thought I needed to buy a new mic. But following this it has helped a lot!
makes no sense doesn't work
yea
because he doesn't quite understand it himself. putting noise reduction at 0 makes no difference, putting it at 48 removes almost everything. he said the opposite thing.
Hi Dusty, thank you so much for explaining about the noise reduction on your video and for this reason I wanted to ask for your advice as I am getting an Electrical humming noise fro my Hi Fi. Let me first explain what I am trying to do and maybe then you will have a better idea. I am in the process of transferring all of my old cassettes and Minidiscs into mp3 by recording them on my iMac desktop and using the Audacity software to convert the signal to digital but I keep getting this Electrical humming noise from my HiFI just before any music starts. It only happens when I use the cassette player or the Minidisc and the noise is reduced if I lower the HiFi volume but if I lower the volume too much then the actual recoding levels will also be reduced at playback. I have tried various ways to reduce this humming noise by changing the volume levels on the Audacity when recording but it has not made much difference so after I saw your video I was wondering if you had any bright ideas for me trying to remove that background and very annoying humming sound. Thanks Dusty I sent you this message to your email address also. Regards John
How to remove background noise!
1. buy a mic
And more so, a dynamic mic. Condenser mics are great, but they pick up EVERYTHING. And thus you end up battling unwanted noises.
Five years later..... Thank you for posting this.
Didnt work
Captain BOWWtie did find any nice app of removing atmosphere sound and vehicles sound plz tell me
Oh my word thank you so much! I am a small content creator and my next video recording was going to have too much feedback with background noise. I never fully understood how to use audacity but this really helped. Thank you so much!
Don’t take this the wrong way but I LOVE YOU MAN!!!! Thank you! I’m currently doing a radio story set in the world of RESIDENT EVIL with 20 actors and I’ve been stuck on the same episode for a month since I got a better mic. I can finally progress without having air sounds in the background! Thank you again!
Thank you so very very much. It works like charm at getting out the line hum/hiss. You just saved me so much time and trouble!!! Thanks again.
Thank you. It's not my first time watching this video. Been away from Audacity for awhile and needed the refresh!
Wow,your voice sounds awesome,just like the professional announcer.I love it.
Great tips, the sound improved considerably. Thank you.
Thanks for making this! I’m a beginner in Audacity but I’m also a aspiring voice actor and I really want to make my sound as crystal clear as possible. I have autism. so forgive me if my explanation for this isn’t very good.
Namaste Dusty Bhai,
Seenu from India,
Firstly thanks a lot for your kind tips on different motivational stuff...
I have been watching you for many months and following your tips for my screen-casting. I use Camtasia 9 and Audacity for my Software tutorial podcasts (I train people on Python software) which involves screen recording and annotations. Since I live in an area which is surrounded by traffic, churches, mosques, schools, factories; my videos have been spoiled many times as I am about to finish them there is some kind of noise from the above said sources which gives me a spike in the sound file which cannot be flatten. It is taking many takes to finish video and in the due course lot of frustration I am experiencing. I tried going to a remote hill side to record a screen cast but wind is my enemy as it is directly blowing into my Yeti Blue mike, lack of enough power source etc problems. It started as a hiccup and in no time it became my nightmare.
I can't afford building a soundproof booth or hiring a studio room. I've been thinking on this for months and years on how to overcome this problem as recording a screen cast with all the background noises will not sound professional. If it is just a bird chirping sound, that's fine..but it is street hawker shouts, vehicle horn sounds, regular prayer sounds from churches& mosques, near by residents' talk, neighbor's baby crying what not.
I tried many things known to me, but nothing worked out. I am completely stalled without recording a single podcast for months crying and whining. Do you have any idea to better my situation and sound professional.
I have already seen many people overtaking me with meager facilities. At least I have a good voice and confidence but lack of motivation with the above problem is stopping me.
Some regular sounds from dawn to dusk:
5am: Azan from a nearby mosque..5 times daily
6am: Prayer bells from all of the homes around me..
8am: Hawker shouts like this....Brinjal, Tomato, Coriander.. reads loudly 15 items without a breathe.. clickhere to see.
9am: Old scrap paper buyer: Highest decibel.. click here,
10am: Furniture repair-man
12 - 3pm: Juice vendor..check here
4pm: Ice Cream vendor..click-here
5pm: Kids from school...etc etc
At one point I tried to make fun of those sounds quoting them
contextually as and when those are heard.. But I thought to
make it more professional. So I used to wait till the midnight to see
everything/everybody/every creature settled..losing sleep, next day I feel day time fatigue, lack
of concentration, depression etc
Another problem is about language, since I am from India and not being a native
speaker of English, I take little time to search for the right word
when doing a screen cast even though I do not have mother tongue
influence. Even my confidence level should be bettered as I have seen in many videos.
Few inputs on what I am using for my podcasts..
1. Blue Yeti Mike for voice
2. Camtasia 9 for screen recording
3. Audacity for audio
4. Lenovo E470 thinkpad windows-7 64bit, 16 GB RAM, 1TB SSD etc.
If I use Audacity to reduce the noise, at the same point of audio disturbance my recorded voice also there, and its will be spoilt if I reduce the noise.........please help me Guru.
My problem is not like a sound from an back ground air-conditioner, it is still bigger than that. So please address various sounds mentioned above. Frustration levels are at the peak coz of this.
Thanks for the tips Bhai
the trick works PERFECTLY. now my podcast sounds better :)
Ty so much my man! For all the people still having problems: The Noise reduction (dB) has to be as high as possible and not as low - that worked for me even though i have tried 100 other things
That's a great video! Audacity is awesome. Note that since Audacity is not available for iPhone, I found the ByeNoise app very useful if you want to do that with no computer.
Very helpful Dusty. Greatly appreciate your work here.
You got it backwards. The higher the noise reduction db, the more noise it takes out. Having it at 0 does almost nothing.
Facts
omg i swear ive tried many different youtube videos that told me the same thing but when i watch yours it works?!??!?!
OMG! Thank you so much dude! Now I can record without having to tell my sister to shut up. Hopefully she doesn't get to loud.
Or else she will be able to get heard by the recording because I breathed lightly like .01 CM from my mic and it sensed it but thats fiinneee
New to Audacity - my first time editing a video - quick, clean, concise, great help!
wow that totally worked. I was trying to reduce highway noise in the background of a mockingbird singing. voila it worked! Thank you!
Awesome, this worked!! Thanks!! P.S. Your voice is killer!
thank you, didnt know why noise reduction was only effecting the selected part but now I know
Hi, As i see you are using mac. Howto record computer and mic voice together in Audacity? I've tried in Linux and mac both are not possible. Any tricks or recommendation?
Regards
Thank you for this. I'm so miffed with myself, I've basically been doing that but instead I select the whole audio file and then do a noise profile on that instead of just some background noise!
aaah at last someone who knows what there doing ..thanks you for this video mate. sorted all my problems in less than 3 minutes .thanks you. been taking months to sort this out. thanks bro.
Hello, really nice tutorial! I have a question though, I used the noise reduction as you've shown in this tutorial. The thing is, how do I take this "filtered" voice and import it into my .mp4 video? Any tool would really help me. Thanks!
Thanks Dusty! I've been trying to figure this out for a while and it worked like a charm. Very easy tutorial to follow, thank you. Except! To Rob Fowler, you're correct, sliding the bar all the way up to 48 db (all the way to the right) drops all the hiss in the background, but then you can tell that the voice might start sounding a little bit robotic, so in that case maybe set it to like 45 or 40? This is such an awesome trick!
Hi Dusty. I just experimented with an interview in a cafe thinking it would give me good atmospheric sound but I was wrong and now I want to increase the two main voices and reduce the voices and noise in the background at the cafe. I don't have any noise with just the background, well I could have a few seconds maybe, or one second possibly! Can you suggest what I could do?
Many thanks, Annabel
Please help....I did EXACTLY as you said on the noise reduction, but still hear the "hiss" in my voice over. I can also see the thicker wave line in the file. Any suggestions?
Thank you so much :D I've spent hours trying to find a good tutorial for getting rid of background noise, I followed this and now my sound clip is near perfect! Thank you xxx
This is amazing! thank you for sharing this tip, it really improved the quality of my audio, and I recorded it with my phone
1 year later...still helping ppl like me.
Thank you!
Appreciate the video. Was able to get out an annoying fan noise in the background of my recording. Thanks!
Thanks for the tutorial - Do you know of a tool that works dynamically? meaning that I can have the tool run when I start Windows, and it will reduce the background music and noise for each movie I am watching so I can hear the dialog clearly? Thanks!
Thank you this helped a lot! Now I can record DECENT audio now. :)
Finally. An audio tutorial video with decent audio. I dont understand why it is like this. 😂😂
Thank you soooo much, works great, i was getting annoyed with the extra background noise, even after closing the window, closing the windows worked about 5-10% with your tip it worked about 80-90%
please tell me what microphone you use for recordings????
so i use the method you showed and it worked well, but the sound level for the finish product seems low, how do i go about, to set the proper volume? like making my voice sound louder after removing the background noise? thanks!
Great video man. Straight forward and easy, been looking for this!
Still helpful 7 years later...
How do you expand the time line on Audacity... cant grab the room noise I want to eliminate - Please
any chance you know how to isolate a vocal or to further explain, lets say there is a consistent wind say from a beach, do you happen to know how to go about getting that out of audio. or kinda that car passing by sound?
This is fantastic........... eventhough i leave it as u said, i still dont get what i need, but the second part u show , i explore it and preview and i get what i want ............ thank you so much.. i just learn new thing today
Hi - great video! Really helpful! I'm reducing the noise that an airplane makes when you're inside of it - I recorded an interview for a radio show when onboard. I can easily follow the tutorial steps, but cannot set db, sensitivity and frequency correctly - the interviewee's voice comes out a bit artificial. Any tips on that maybe? Many thanks!!
When following the directions in the video, I would always end up with an unusable file. And the reason is that while it DID reduce the noise, it also made the vocals sound tinny, or under water. To prevent this I found that using a Noise Reduction (db) level of about 34 and a Sensitivity of 1.50 did the trick.... all hiss or background noise is GONE, but also no tinny sound. While this may seem counter intuitive and flies in the face of the settings (and why) in the video, it did the trick.... and that is what matters. I am posting this just in case others ran into that problem. Cheers!
oh shit i forgot you had a yt channel i just listen to the podcasts lol !!
Thank you so much for this video! It helped me get rid of the annoying hissing noise in my audio. Saved me from having to rerecord my audio : )
Thanks for the clear directions on removing background noise with Audacity.