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    Latest wedding had so much traffic noise outside that evry audio i used has the dam traffic noise, voice recorders are the best but can still hear some of it, please help reduce, is audio city the best.

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    Audio City? Did you mean Audacity?

    I don't know if its the best, but I found it really helpful and there seem to be lots of very positive reviews about it.

    Good as it is, it may not be able to do miracles....

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    Soundtrack Pro if you're on Mac.
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    Yeah, Almo's right. Look if you can find someone with FCS3. The Soundtrack version there has surgical noise removal:
    http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect...._540p_h264.mov
    My FCS2 also has it, but only all or nothing.

    Dunno if it is built into Audition. If that is the case, you could download the trial version from Adobe.
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    If you want, you can send me te audio file via Dropbox, but I doubt I'll have time to work on it before end of next week.
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    Quote Originally Posted by liverpool 1 View Post
    Latest wedding had so much traffic noise outside that evry audio i used has the dam traffic noise
    If the audio is almost not usable to start with, pretty much all audio software won't be able to do miracles.
    Quote Originally Posted by MrMicah View Post
    Audio City? Did you mean Audacity?
    Good as it is, it may not be able to do miracles....
    1) Audacity, for free, has one of the best noise removal feature I've tested so far.
    2) That's, as I said, depending on the original recording.
    I DO IT BECAUSE I CAN. I CAN BECAUSE I WANT TO. I WANT TO BECAUSE YOU SAID I COULDN'T.

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    Draps, check out the video link I posted. The surgical noise removal in STP has helped me oftentimes already. Most of my shooting takes place in pretty non-controlled environment. That STP tool can be a life saver under such conditions.

    It's not perfect, but it helps a lot.
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    Dirty audio is a nightmare.

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    In my job there's rarely a way around it.

    Doc, you live in about the same environment as I do. You have your interviewee hooked up to a lav mic. Somewhere in the middle of it a rooster crows (cock fight is still a favorite past time here). Then you do it again. At the same sentence one of the feral dogs starts barking. Then those cool trucks without a muffler.....

    I was recording a 2 minute tutorial the other day at home (farming homestead). Took me four hours to get somewhat clean audio.
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    Audacity is probably the best free software. Sony Creative just brought out some new software, SpectraLayers Pro, which I haven't yet tried. You can download the free trial here: http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/spectralayerspro It works on PC and Mac.

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    Thanks guys downloaded audacity worked a treat with the dirty audio, cheers cg and all...

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    STP saved my life.
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    Just figured out that the surgical noise removal also works in Audition 6. You just click SHIFT-D to show spectral meter, then select the wanted frequency area and lower the volume of that band. Zooming in is not as comfortable as it was in STP (at least I haven't found a way to zoom into a specific frequency range yet).
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    Quote Originally Posted by cgbier View Post
    Doc, you live in about the same environment as I do.
    Aye, and the diesel trucks without mufflers or fecking two-stroke pieces of shit putting past or gabbing leaf sweepers talking shit about fish soup or... madness.

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