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Originally Posted by D.M.I.  I Have Decent Quality But A Major Problem I Have Is Tryin To Remove The Sound Of Me Takin A Breath In Between Bars. Anyone Kno The Filter Used To Get Rid Of This. I've Tried Noise Reduction An Some Other Filters But Nada. Anyone Got Any Advice. |
You might also try to using a gate to take out some of those breaths. I believe Cool Edit Pro has a gate processor that comes with the software, I could be wrong. The way it works is the gate effectively cuts out the volume on a track when the volume goes below a certain level (threshold) that you set and then kicks back open when the signal is loud enough to be above that level. The other settings you may need to tweak are the attack and release. Basically these determine how fast the gate open and closes. For example, if the attack is too short it may sound too abrupt. How you'd go about setting this gate, would be to try to set the level low enough so that the gate kicks in when you are breathing but opens back up when your vocals come. Then its a matter of adjusting the attack/release settings until you have something that sounds natural. It may not work but it's something you could try that'll probably work better than simply cutting them out. As another poster has mentioned, you have to be careful about cutting certain breaths out of the audio because in doing so you may remove information important to the articulation of the vocal.
What you can also try is doing is automating a fade-in on the breaths. Don't apply this to the actual audio in the waveform window, because if you don't get it right the first time, it'll be much harder to manipulate it back. By automating it, you preserve the original audio (if you mess up) and it gives you much more control over how the fade in happens.
Goto View, Show Volume Envelopes. On your waveform blocks you should see yellow lines going across the top. What this does is it determines the volume of the track. It should default to 100% of your volume. You can use this to manipulate over time the volume of the track if there are some inconsistencies or spikes in volume. You can also do your fade-in, fade-out with this. All you have to do is click on the track you want to adjust the volume, and click at a point on the yellow line you want to manipulate. You should see a little white box which you can drag to where you want to set the volume at that particular point in time.
So what you can do with this is create a fade in where the breath occurs to deemphasize the breath but you don't have to any kind of destructive editing, and there is no abrupt edit. A point on editing if you choose to go that route. Always make your cuts at a zero crossing point Zoom if if you have to, till you see the wave cross the zero line. If you don't you may hear an audible popping sound.
There are a number of applications for manipulating with the volume envelopes. You can also do some cools things automating panning, effects levels, etc. They all pretty much operate on the same principle, you just have to set up the program to view those envelopes and edit them.
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