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Hi there- I am a new user to Vegas and this forum has saved my bacon countless times already. I am nearly done editing an hour long instructional video, and all of the video work is done-- I am trying now to figure out how to eliminate what I would call 'high spots' from the audio. There is probably a better term but here is a description: the audio is pretty good but occaisionally the narrator's voice seems to 'top out' and it makes a noise like static. It is very brief-- only audible when he ennunciates a word at the beginning or end of a sentence, but nonetheless it is distracting and doesn't sound very professional. I am wondering if there is a filter or plug in that I can use to smooth this out? I hope this makes sense, and I look forward to trying anything you all may suggest. Thanks Chris.

Hi Chris, normally a compressor is used in audio applications and in NLE situations, to resolve this. Depending on what version of Vegas you're running, it automatically places three effects on your audio track every time you add an audio track or video track with audio. They are, in order, Track Noise Gate, Track EQ, and Track Compressor.

Viewable by left clicking the Track FX button on your narrator's track. If those FX's are not added by default then you're running an older version of Vegas, and I would search the plugins you have on your computer (Direct X and others) for a compressor. If you do have the Track Compressor effect on your audio track, simply single left click it, to highlight it, and adjust it's settings from within there. You'll get the idea of what each setting does by altering them, and monitoring your audio track at the same time.

If none of this resolves your issue, and it should, you'll have to automate the levels on your audio track, until it sounds useable. Done by right clicking your audio track and choosing Insert/Remove Envelope/Volume. Then right click the line it creates and choose Add Point. Drop points wherever you want to automate the volume and adjust them in places where your audio is spiking. Hope this helps. I don't beleive that a compressor will resolve you 'static' problem. What a compresor does is to reduce your dynamic range (makes the volume more consistant).

What you have is a digital over caused by recording at to high of a level. In digital audio, renever you hit 0 on your meter that is as loud as you can go. What occurs then is a flattening of the waveform and distortion (static). To get rid of the distortion you must use tools like the tools in Soundforge (or other audio editing program) to fix your distorted wavefrom peaks. Since I am at lunch right now I will have to wait till later to get into specifics. Install Ubuntu On Mac Mini 2012 Ssd Install. Modest compression is good to average out your volume but will not help your pops, static, distortion.

Do you own anything like Soundforge, Audition? Regards, Rick. Rick Mac Director of Audio Production TCT Network - Directv 377. Hi Rick- Thanks for the help. I think your diagnoss is correct as to why this problem occured.

A real rookie move, but now I am stuck with it. Anyway, I have been messing around with all sorts of filters and am not quite having the right results. I think that you are exactly right-- I need to doctor the waveforms in the audio, not mess with the overall dynamic range of the file. I don't own soundforge but would purchase something to do the trick if necessary. Time is of the essence, and I sure have learned a lot in the last 5 hours of experimenting, but mostly I've learned what WON'T work.

Is soundforge a $$$ piece of software? If so, is there something budget-minded that will do the job? Thanks Chris. Hi Mike- Here is a short clip (10-15 seconds) that will show you exactly what I'm working on. It is a 1.1 megabyte MP3, and it is worse than most of the rest of the whole audio track.

If I could get the first minute evened out, the rest is ok. I saw online that Adobe Audition is much less expensive than Soundforge-- would that do the job?

And is my hope of finding some kind of filter completely untenable? Here is the link.

I just uploaded it so it might take a few minutes to make it through the maze on Youtube's server: Thanks in advance, Chris. Chris, Sorry for the delay. Tonight was date night with my wife. Audition does have the tools needed. Soundforge has some additional tools that help automate the process of finding all of your clipped waveform locations and dropping a marker to help you locate areas that need help. I'm not sure if Audacity has the needed tools. I will look it over in the next few minutes and post back.

I tried the youtube address but could not find your file. How quickly do you need to fix your project? Regards, Rick. Rick Mac Director of Audio Production TCT Network - Directv 377. Chris, I downloaded Audacity and took a look. The 'remove click & pop' tool may fix some light wavefrom distortion. You have to zoom in real tight on the waveform and highlight the area where the waveform is flatten out.

Then run the 'remove click & pop' tool (look under effects). You will have to do this for every instance where the waveform is distorted. The tool looks a bit limited but who knows it may help. By the way, before you purchase anything post me a a few seconds of a bad clip and a light clip.

For really bad clips there is little that can be done. Better to know that before you drop some cash. An MP3 file is fine.

Email me with attached file. Cooledit2003@yahoo.com I will evaluate it and see if the tools in Audition can remedy your worse case file. Regards, Rick. Rick Mac Director of Audio Production TCT Network - Directv 377. Chris, I was reading my previous post and noticed a mistake.

What I ment to say is that Audacity does NOT have the tools needed to fix the distortion. The past few days I have done testing of several tools to repair clipped/distorted audio waveforms. The tools I tested were, Audacity tool, Audition tool, Waves Noise Reduction Tools, and Sony's Noise Reduction 2. What I found was that audacity was a bust, Audition & Waves fixed light to moderate distortion. Sony's Noise Reduction 2 plugin did an excellent job of fixing even really bad distortion. Noise Reduction 2 comes bundled with Sound Forge 9 and is also available seperately. I would highly recommend this plugin for cleaning up clipped audio.

Just as a disclaimer I would say that the Waves Noise Reduction toolset are more capable than this post may suggest. It has many settings that I did not try. With a bit of tweeking it is a very powerful tool. The Sony tool worked great will default settings, no tweeking. Regards, Rick. Rick Mac Director of Audio Production TCT Network - Directv 377.

[chrisgleason635] 'You mentioned that Noise Reduction 2 is available as a seperate plug-in: can I run it from Vegas?' Do your research on pricing.

I noticed that at Amazon.com you can purchase Sound Forge 9 (it includes the NR2 plugin) cheaper than you can purchase just the plugin by itself from Sony's Website. Once the plugin is installed any program that can run direct-x plugins will have access to use it. Here is a link to the Amazon listing for SF-9. When you get your plugin let me know I can will talk you threw how to use it.

Regards, Rik. Rick Mac Director of Audio Production TCT Network - Directv 377. Hi, I just did a job on some pretty nasty clipping audio. The worst thing about it was, that the distortion came from the transmitter of my wireless lavier mic and we had the camera on auto. Thus the compressor was needly doing its work an making sure all the distorted audio was reduced in signal level, but the audio was abviously still distorted.

I tried to reduce clipping with abobe audition using clip restoration to no avail, probably because of the problem described above, I mean, I think the software looks for peaks in signal level, and it didn't find any necessary distortion there. I didn't try soundforge yet, what I did now is isolate all the distorted audio and eq all the worst frequencies out of it.

Still ugly, but much better. Not sure what the client will think of it. I already talked to him about the problem on set though, so he's prepared. I'll try Chris' method too. Daan Steijnen Camjo.

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