Sound for Video Session: Cleaning Up Background Noise from dialogue recordings in Audition and RX

In this week's Sound for Video Session I show an example of how to reduce the noise (fairly extreme background noise) in a dialogue recording using Adobe Audition and Izotope RX 6.

Links to gear we discussed or used to record this session:

Focal Solo6 Be - Top-end professional near-fields from Focal. Beryllium tweeter. These are the monitors I finally decided to purchase for my mixing work - just to follow up from last week's session where we talked monitors.

Electrovoice RE20 Dynamic Broadcast Microphone - this is what I used to record my voice for this session

Antelope Audio Orion Studio Audio Interface - this is what I used to record my voice for this session.

Copyright 2017 by Curtis Judd

Quick Sound: Noise Reduction with Audacity

If the sound for your video is a little on the noisy side, you can clean it up using the free audio editing app Audacity. Audacity comes with a noise reduction plugin that makes it quick and easy to cut back the noise so that your audience can focus on your story or message. Here’s a very quick look at how to use the noise reduction effect in Audacity.

This is the start of a new series of tutorials I'd like to try called Quick Sound. The idea is to keep each piece short and focus on teaching a very focused element of audio recording or post processing. Does this sound interesting to you?