Topic: Last night's recording has ALOT of floor noise..

[firemt66]

Hello, last night's Lori Mckenna's show it was a very quiet affair. The three mics, 1 for the two people to sing  into and two others, to mic their guitars, there were no speakers in the balcony. She did say that she wanted this short tour to be like we're singing in my dining room really intimate, and it sure was. But at a cost, very high noise floor. Is there an easy program to eliminate a lot of this? I've googled it. Audacity says it could do it, but at the moment I'm having a problem with that. For some reason, I can't get no volume, and i'm not new with that program.I don't understand all sorts of other programs on the computer has all sorts of volumes, but I can't get volume with that program..ugh! Any hopefully easy tips would be great. It really was a great show, thanks,Scott

[firemt66]

This was the setup last night

[grawk]

RX should be able to do it without issue if you have a clean copy of the room sound without them playing

[firemt66]

There's a good 10 second spot where they're not playing or talking,Although I don't have RX..

[firemt66]

Would RX elements have what I'm looking for or do I need to go for the standard edition?

[beatkilla]

Should be able to do this with audacity.

Here is a YouTube tutorial

https://youtu.be/bMefnFkCanE?si=08GijtmYVIU2BDOJ

[firemt66]

Should be able to do this with audacity.

Here is a YouTube tutorial

https://youtu.be/bMefnFkCanE?si=08GijtmYVIU2BDOJ
Thanks for the YouTube video. I'll have to check this out. I googled instructions over the weekend for this. But it didn't seem like it was doing what it was supposed to do. I hit okay, but it didn't say that it was processing anything. Maybe it did, and it doesn't come up with a screen that's said it did something. I'm gonna watch this video!

[firemt66]

Okay, I reduced the noise floor noise a good amount.I used setting 8. Is the noise floor able to be lowered almost to nonexistent without affecting the actual sound of the concert? Should I try again with a hire number? Thanks for any info

[rhinowing]

Okay, I reduced the noise floor noise a good amount.I used setting 8. Is the noise floor able to be lowered almost to nonexistent without affecting the actual sound of the concert? Should I try again with a hire number? Thanks for any info

Try it with 3-4 different settings until you find a good balance of hiss removal and not effecting the music. So if you like how it sounds on 8, also run it on 7 and 9 to compare. I find NR is most noticeable on cymbals and "ess" sounds/syllables from the vocals

anytime I do an edit that changes the fundamental sound of a tape like EQ or NR, I also make sure to archive the unprocessed recording. Sometimes I go back to them later and I'm not happy with the editing and want to redo