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I just did a recording off my Zoom H4n, unfortunately I didn't have a windjammer available so as you can imagine I have the occasional breeze disrupting the vocals.

how would you suggest I lessen this in ableton?

Thanks!

gate

4.33 wrote:gate

gate?

yup

4.33 - lame.


gate is an audio effect that does not let audio through unless the audio is over a certain level. there's probably a wikipedia page on the topic, or google "audio gate." a gate effect comes with Live in the audio effects section.

chill dude, he said breeze, not hurricane

help the guy out.

High pass filter/eq is probably the most you can do within Ableton. Spectral view in Adobe Audition is an excellent tool for removing unwanted sounds though, as well as their noise reduction... But that's not Ableton so doesn't help much.

Izotope RX is very good. Adobe Audition, Soundforge, Vegas have plugins licensed from them- not that good like stand alone but in your case should do.
Adobe has month long demo version you can download from their site. Whichever of those you use, have to experiment a bit but basic procedure is: you find few sec of the noise(only) you want to remove, "sample" it and the plugin will remove it from entire audio.
Ableton is as useful for this job like vacuum cleaner to clean your teeth (and gate like hammer and chisel)

Audacity (a free program) has a noise removal feature - it analyzes a part that's all noise and it filters it out from the rest of the track.

re record...lesson learned

gate will just make it too harsh-sounding (cutting/fading between silence and windy recording)
and any kind of noise removal will remove parts of the sound and make it muddy..but it's the best option if the specific take is essential

3dot... wrote:re record...lesson learned

sure i'll just have them annul their wedding and do it over next week haha ;-p
it was a last minute thing unfortunately and i'm a noob.

lol thanks all...i'll seriously give those suggestions a try, found this link on the noise gate
http://www.beatportal.com/feed/item/tut ... oise-gate/

Upload the wav somewhere, PM me the url and I'll take a look when I get a chance.