computer fans air conditioners and other background sounds can show up in your audio
recordings without you even realizing they were there when you did the actual recording
in this video i'm going to show you how to easily remove some of these background sounds using
tracktion waveform free or pro and i'm only using a free plugin i'm zane welcome to audio tech tv
where it's my goal to help you conquer the tech so you can unleash your creativity and i do this by
providing easy to follow audio tech tips tutorials and reviews links to all of the software mentioned
in this video are down in the description so you can head down there if you need any of this stuff
but right now let's jump into this tracktion waveform tutorial all right first i want
to set your expectations this isn't going to magically remove big noises from the background
it's more about removing hisses hums fan sounds and that sort of thing this can be
great in noisy rooms where you record your vocals podcasts videos or whatever else
so here's my audio clip right here all right this is an example of audio recording with some
background noise what you're hearing is my laptop fan and you might also be hearing my lighting fan
so you can hear there's a bit of a hum it's the fans like i say in there it's the
computer laptop and a mix between that and my lighting fan plus i also heard in there
the sounds like the hard drive on my laptop was making some noise as well
so we're going to be getting rid of that so the first thing i need to do is load up a
plug-in so let's go to add new plug-in and the plugin that i'm using is the mcompressor from
melda production this is a free plugin i've included a link to it down in the description and
if you need help installing plugins in tracktion waveform i'll also include a link to my video
showing you how to install plugins into waveform so once you have this loaded up onto the track
just click on presets right here in the middle and then you want to click on the one that says noise
gate just double click on that then click close and your screen should look like this let's listen
to what it sounds like just with the basic preset nothing edited all right this is an example of
audio recording with some background noise what you're hearing is my laptop fan so that's pretty
choppy and it's extremely easy to make this sound better we just go to this node right here
you just want to click on that so first i'm going to start playing it and then i'm going
to edit this so here we are playing it all right this is an example of audio click this
node background noise just drag it to the left and you might also be hearing my lighting fan
all right this is an example of audio recording with some background noise
what you're hearing is my laptop fan and you might also be hearing my lighting fan
all right this is an example of audio recording with some background noise what you're here
and that sounds pretty good right there you want to keep dragging it over to the left
until you can't hear that noise in the background anymore and your voice isn't chopped up like the
way it was before so i'm just going to play the clip again and i'm going to turn the compressor
on and off so you can hear the difference so we'll start with it on all right this is an
example of audio recording with some background noise what you're hearing is my laptop fan
and you might also be hearing my lighting fan all right still a little choppy on my voice
i'm just going to bring this back a little bit more let's listen to that all right this is an
example of audio recording with some background noise what you're hearing is my laptop fan
and you might also be hearing my lighting fan alright that's pretty good right there
and now because it does bring the level down a bit what we're going to do is go to this node right
in the middle the circle there and just bring it up a little bit so you click and drag on it
kind of curving there and let's have a listen to what it's done now
all right this is an example of audio recording with some background noise what you're hearing
is my laptop fan and you might also be hearing my lighting fan so that doesn't sound too bad
right there and like i said you can use this for podcasts for vocals that you're singing for
your video work or wherever else you need to edit out some background noise from audio now with the
free version of this plugin you can't save the preset so if you wanted to save this as your own
preset so you can easily load it up every time you can't do that within the plugin itself but
tracktion waveform has this tool down here where you can save a preset right there so
click save and i'm going to click create new preset and i'll call this background remover
i think i spelled it wrong by accident there but now let's just change this to we'll change
it to overdrive looks totally different now but i want to bring up my preset i click load
background remover and there is our preset that we saved right there and if you want even more
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