- Hello, I'm Mike Russell from musicradiocreative.com.
In this video, we're gonna completely remove a ringing phone
from the background of some dialogue
using the tools in Adobe Audition.
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So let's hop in to Adobe Audition.
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Now over here, let's have a listen.
And we are live, Emily has the sound.
Okay, there's definitely a phone ringing away
in the background there.
Now, the best way to be able to see that phone
because you can't really see where that phone is,
it's somewhere around here.
And it's definitely overlapping the speech as well,
is by using spectral frequency display,
which is available up here.
You can click the icon or hit Shift and D on your keyboard.
And immediately in this heat map of frequencies
we can see right here that there's a phone tone.
And we can even try and isolate it
using the paintbrush tool.
And I would just paint over those phone ringtones
as roughly as I can, doesn't have to be super accurate,
just so we get an idea of what that phone sounds like
that we are trying to remove from the dialogue.
Let's have a listen.
There is the phone,
that's the stuff we're trying to get rid of.
Let's make it nice and loud.
There it is, okay.
So in order to get rid of it, one of the best ways to do it
is use the spot healing brush tool.
With this tool, you can make it bigger or smaller
using the curly brackets on your keyboard.
So I can make it really tiny.
I can also zoom a little bit closer
into the audio that needs to be removed over here.
So we can see here it is.
And as accurately as I can, now, I'm gonna try
and paint over that phone ringtone, just like this
and get rid of as much as I can.
Now, it's definitely a job that needs steady
and accurate hands to go through.
But believe me, when you do this
and you've actually isolated that ringtone
with spot healing brush, it's absolutely fantastic.
This tool is just amazing.
One of the best things about phone ringtones
is they usually have uniform patterns.
They're usually blocks like this on audio,
which are very easy to identify.
So doing that, zap.
And it's pretty much completely gone, hasn't it?
It's amazing, spot healing brush tool
can do that stuff really easily.
Now you can also see stuff up here in the high end.
I might just make the spot healing brush
nice and big for this.
And I can go a little more roughly.
As I can see it's not impacting the speech
that ends around here, around the 7K mark.
And it's pretty much completely gone.
If I wanted to be OCD with this ringtone
and completely remove it,
I would actually reduce this down and I'd go along again,
maybe with a bit of a fatter brush this time,
just to try and get anything that I've missed,
and go along the pattern of that ringtone
in my spectral frequency display view.
And this is really gonna help any ringtones
or things going off in the background,
phones going particularly,
this is just gonna heal it all up for you.
And let's just zoom out and play it back.
And we are live, Emily has the sound.
Okay, I'm just gonna copy that for a second.
Just give you another example to a brand new audio file,
paste it in there
'cause we'll come back to that in a second.
I just want to undo this and put that ringtone back,
and show you what we had at the start.
And then I want to go to
what we've got now after spot healing.
Pretty much completely gone.
And if you wanna take it to the next level,
you can actually go into effect.
So you can go to amplitude and compression dynamics,
and you can start to set up something like a noise gate
which is gonna cut out any of the background noise
indicated by these purple speckles when there is no speech.
So again.
And we are live, Emily has the sound.
Okay, it's a little bit too high, the threshold there.
We want to let more audio through.
So I'm gonna bring it down a bit.
And we are live, Emily has the sound.
And are live, Emily has the sound.
Apply it, watch spectral frequency change
to go completely black where there is no speech,
that is really clean, clear speech with no ringtone.
Let me know how you use this amazing tool in Adobe Audition
in the comments down below.
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