Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 89.85.122.46]
on October 07, 2007 01:21 PM
I'm always careful with recommending the Noise Removal tool. Actually, if you pay attention to the resulting audio, you'll notice you're introducing really annoying noise. Tape noise is noticeable, but you can forget about it, whereas the noise created by the Noise Removal tool is always changing and sounds unnatural, thus you'll always be distracted by it.
It is true even if using the tool at low levels - and it is always a pain when people hand you recordings they are so proud to have "denoised", when what they achieved was making the audio unbearable .
The problem is worse with human voice (talks, lectures, free audiobook), but it's still a pain with music.
For human voice, yes, a low-pass filter is far better. But please no more of the "Noise Removal" self-deluding. Making the recording as noise-free as possible is the only sane way to go, don't imagine you'll be able to improve it with a tool like that (and that's not an Audacity problem, I've seen commercial audio edition software achieve the same audio slaughtering).
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Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 89.85.122.46] on October 07, 2007 01:21 PMIt is true even if using the tool at low levels - and it is always a pain when people hand you recordings they are so proud to have "denoised", when what they achieved was making the audio unbearable .
The problem is worse with human voice (talks, lectures, free audiobook), but it's still a pain with music.
For human voice, yes, a low-pass filter is far better. But please no more of the "Noise Removal" self-deluding. Making the recording as noise-free as possible is the only sane way to go, don't imagine you'll be able to improve it with a tool like that (and that's not an Audacity problem, I've seen commercial audio edition software achieve the same audio slaughtering).
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