- So you've recorded some audio
that you really like,
but there's a slight sound or hiss
in the background.
Let's get rid of it.
So I use Adobe Audition
to get rid of background sounds
to enhance the quality of my audio recordings.
Let's take a real quick look at how that works.
Here we have an audio file we're going to use
as an example of how to get rid
of the background noise.
Let's listen to it once the way it is right now.
Well, here we're recording a sample
with audio noise in the background.
Let's get rid of it.
Okay, that doesn't sound too bad,
but there was a lot of background noise.
You can turn up your speakers
if you're not hearing it.
Let's just take this area here
that looks like it's a flat line
when we're at a distance,
and we'll play just that.
You here a kind of a rushing water sound.
That's not what it is,
but it's kind of what it sounds like.
But notice on the view meter down below
all this action, all this is noise down here,
so that's what tells me
there's a lot of things there.
And on a good sound system
you're going to hear that easily.
So, to get rid of that,
I'm in Adobe Audition right now.
In order to get rid of the background noise,
I'm going to select an area.
It has to be a decent size.
It doesn't have to be
quite as much as I'm grabbing,
but we have to select something for the software
to understand what it needs to get rid of.
So I selected that area.
I'm going to go to effects, down to noise reduction.
So capture noise print.
I'm going to capture that area
of the background noise.
Now I want to click off of that,
because if I go to remove noise,
anything selected,
it'll only remove the selection,
not the entire thing.
So I want the entire audio file to be cleaned up.
So I'm going to go back to effects,
and back to noise reduction,
and now I'm going to do
the process of noise reduction,
so it's going to use the noise print
that we grabbed last time,
and it's going to apply a process
to get rid of that across the entire file.
I'll click on that,
and a window pops up allowing us to make
a number of adjustments.
However, I'm going to use the default,
and I'm going to click on apply.
And it's done, so the line is now even flatter.
Let's grab a selection of it,
and we'll click play.
I don't hear anything,
and look at the view meter.
Nothing is moving.
So as you could tell,
it got rid of the background noise immediately.
Let's see how it sounds when we play it.
Well, here we are recording a sample
with audio noise in the background.
So that sounds fantastic.
No background noise, cleaned it up beautifully.
So you can do this to your own VO
if your recording in an area
that's not perfectly soundproofed.
So as you could see,
it only takes a couple seconds to get rid
of that annoying background sound
in any recordings,
and now your audio is going to sound
clean and fantastic.