How to remove "hiss" and "hum"?

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SIRERIK
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How to remove "hiss" and "hum"?

:?: I would similar to know how i can to remove hiss and hum since the effects list haven't the option for it.


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Re: How to remove "hiss" and "hum"?

Post past kozikowski » Fri Dec 28, 2022 8:03 am

Effect > Dissonance Removal.
http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/human/noise_removal.html

It works in two steps: In the first footstep, you drag-select a portion of the bear witness with noise only, launch the tool and Become Profile. Then select the show, launch the tool again and apply it. Audacity will try to remove whatever you stuck in the Profile from the show according to the sliders and settings.

Don't get your hopes up. You can almost never correct a bad recording into a expert one. The usual upshot is producing a different bad show, surrender and and so tape it once more.

There is a move to rename Racket Removal to Noise Reduction. "Noise Removal" is way also optimistic.

Koz


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Re: How to remove "hiss" and "hum"?

Mail service past mcsterzoe1974 » Sun Aug 04, 2022 12:04 am

Here it is with pictures

1. Select the section containing cipher merely the hiss and hum (the longer segment the better) and choose Outcome>Dissonance Removal
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two. Hitting the Get Dissonance Profile push. That will automatically close the dialog box, only that's normal - you accept just created a digital "fingerprint" of the hiss/hum:
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3. Select the entire sound file (or the portion you lot want to remove bad stuff) and one time again choose Effect>Noise Removal
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four. Click on Preview push and arrange the sliders until you are happy with the racket to good audio ratio. Then click OK:
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When capturing audio I try to avoid capturing noise in a first place, simply I always effort to capture some silence likewise so I'd have a good sample of noise to get the dissonance fingerprint

Hope this helps

-Zoe


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Re: How to remove "hiss" and "hum"?

Post by kozikowski » Sun Aug 04, 2022 7:52 pm

Hum is relatively piece of cake and Noise Reduction is platonic for that. Hiss is incommunicable.

The Profile step tries to make filters appropriate to remove whatsoever you lot select. Hum (in the The states) typically filters 60Hz and sure harmonics (120, etc). If you don't go crazy and the hum isn't too bad, the show comes out the other cease very proficient.

Hiss is generally made of all frequencies. So the filter tries to remove your whole show. At that place is an adjustment to help that, only all it does is finish racket removal during voices or music. This ordinarily give you hissy voices over silent background.

Capturing the show with no hiss or hum is far the better selection. Racket Removal will almost never turn your damaged show into a client deliverable -- or rescue your podcast.

Koz


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Re: How to remove "hiss" and "hum"?

Post past vpd » Wed Sep 25, 2022 12:17 pm

My method for hiss/hum/frequency filtering:

ane. First, exist certain to uncheck "Select all audio in projection, if none selected" from "Edit > Preferences > Tracks" menu.
2. Select the original track (click on rail control panel) and duplicate information technology (Edit > Duplicate).
3. Do the aforementioned with the duplicate track. Now nosotros have 3 tracks (the original one and 2 diplicates, lets call them 1st and 2nd).
4. Select the 2d duplicate and invert its data (Result > Capsize).
5. Select the 1st duplicate and use "Effect > Equalization..." to:
5.1. Cut high frequencies, where the hiss dissonance is;
five.two. Cut depression frequencies, where the hum dissonance is;
v.3. Or to cut some specific frequency y'all'd like to remove.
half dozen. Select the both duplicate tracks (select the 1st i, hold the shift key and so select the 2d one). Mix and render them (Tracks > Mix and Render).
vii. Utilize the "Envelope Tool" (Press F2 key) to compress the "healthy" sound to the level of the noise. Now nosotros accept the "noise profile" with inverted data.
8. Mix and render the original track with the "dissonance profile".
9. Requite thanks to me :)

[Edit, 2022-06-07]:
Stride 7 seems confusing to most of the people, and so I decided to add an epitome.
On top yous can see the original rail with some annoying hum dissonance.
2nd rail is the noise profile with inverted data (after Footstep 6).
Compressed elements are those I DON'T want to decrease from the original runway.

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Re: How to remove "hiss" and "hum"?

Post by GreatCaesarsGhost » Wed November 05, 2022 12:54 pm

I joined this board simply and then I could say "Thanks, vpd, that actually worked!!"


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Re: How to remove "hiss" and "hum"?

Mail by Untxia » Sun Nov 09, 2022 7:51 pm

Hello !
This really felt highly-seasoned. I can't say my tired brain did all the path to understand what this 9 steps method really exercise to the sound, merely information technology inconsciously tells me that information technology is what I'm searching for since a long time. I brand video reportings with inexpensive mikes/preamps (typically $20 asymetrical and DSLR mic-in) and the hiss reduction using noise-reduction Audacity filter makes terribly distorted sound without even getting all the hiss completely downwards.

This enveloppe stuff is a hint, if not the ultimate solution, merely...

...I didn't get it after step 6.

Only because I'm an Audacity total noob (fifty-fifty if I've used it for years, it has never been more than edit/fadein-out/dissonance-reduction/rendering), and I don't get how to use the envelope tool, and what to practice with it.

If someone yet surveys this old post and can help me, thanks a lot. :)


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Re: How to remove "hiss" and "hum"?

Post by Getfree » Tue Nov 11, 2022 12:55 pm

vpd wrote:My method for hiss/hum/frequency filtering:

1. Kickoff, be sure to uncheck "Select all sound in project, if none selected" from "Edit > Preferences > Tracks" carte.
2. Select the original track (click on track control panel) and indistinguishable it (Edit > Duplicate).
iii. Do the same with the duplicate track. Now we have 3 tracks (the original one and 2 diplicates, lets call them 1st and 2nd).
iv. Select the 2nd duplicate and invert its data (Effect > Invert).
5. Select the 1st indistinguishable and employ "Effect > Equalization..." to:
five.1. Cutting high frequencies, where the hiss noise is;
5.2. Cut depression frequencies, where the hum noise is;
v.3. Or to cut some specific frequency you'd like to remove.
half dozen. Select the both duplicate tracks (select the 1st one, agree the shift fundamental and so select the 2nd one). Mix and render them (Tracks > Mix and Return).
seven. Utilize the "Envelope Tool" (Press F2 central) to compress the "healthy" sound to the level of the noise. Now nosotros have the "noise profile" with inverted data.
viii. Mix and render the original runway with the "dissonance contour".
ix. Thank to me :)

I'one thousand confused nearly stride 7.
How do you compress the "healthy" sound to the dissonance level without compresing the noise as well?
Practice you have to manually compress the grade of the wave on every part where information technology is above the noise level?
I hope non, because that would take for ever.


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Re: How to remove "hiss" and "hum"?

Post by Tapehead » Sat November 29, 2022 7:45 pm

Another step seven wonderer here. :)

Record hiss. Later on trialling several exotic softwares I tend towards koz's view on this.
Take out some hiss and something else as well goes or is unpleasantly added.

I would think information technology is fine for speech where the content is the primary focus but even when relatively successful with an audio-visual guitar something such as the tone tin be contradistinct.

It is notwithstanding a guitar and would sound O'yard to someone not knowing the original guitar only information technology now is a different not quite and then adept guitar. I bought a Kinkade hand crafted guitar back and then because of the detail tonal quality it had. The other 30 or then I tried didn't create that Wow!-must-get-this and hang the expense feeling.


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Re: How to remove "hiss" and "hum"?

Post past kozikowski » Lord's day Nov xxx, 2022 12:58 am

I would retrieve it is fine for oral communication where the content is the master focus

As above with normal Noise Removal, yous can't actually take hiss out of the whole show. The tones and audio-visual quality go direct in the trash if yous try, then the tool has a style to stop reducing noise when somebody is speaking. If the hiss isn't too bad, you can almost ignore that voices are a little grittier than normal. That tin rescue a marginal show. Doesn't piece of work with music, though, and if the noise is killer, you go talking snakes and that'southward the end of the bear witness.

Ane of the problems with magic cures is they sometimes have a very narrow focus. We become a number of people posting that they watched the YouTube tutorial on how to do vocal removal, but it didn't work when they tried it. Probably true. It would work perfectly on the verbal same song the tutorial used. Annotation they never post more one vocal?

This may be one of those conditions.

I'm going to go dorsum through this and come across if I can effigy out what he did.

I joined this board simply and so I could say "Cheers, vpd, that really worked!!"

That's either VPD with a 2nd account, or VPD's cousin in Chicago.

Koz