Sound Forge Like Noise Reduction

[Depster]

I've come to pick everyones brain. I use Sound Forge at home for music editing, and alike, and have become very fond of the Noise Reduction package it has. I have searched around for
something similar for ProTools and have found the Noise Reduction (http://www.sonicfoundry.com/products/NewShowProduct.asp?PID=14) package from Waves, for $1200. (Ouch!) The church does not have the kind of money right now to spend on a package this extravagent.
I currently am using the Q10 plugin for High Frequency Noise Reduction which seems to help alot, but yet there is still a lot of pops, clicks and other annoying stuff. Probably due to our dying Allen and Heath board. (Praying that we have a Crest Board coming near April)Does anyone know of a cheaper package that will allow you to Sample an area and be able to eliminate it from the whole track, much like both plugins I mentioned above?

If only there was DirectX plugin capability for the MAC I would be a happy man.

Any Help Would Be Appreciated.
Nathan Deppe

[dan le]

Hey Despter:
There is Cool Edit Pro that claims to do what you want to do. Visit Syntrillium.com. It is like Sound Forge. But it has an unique sound reduction feature that you wanted.
Basically, it tells you to record the noise, whatever it might be, the nosie that bothers you, such as the noise of people in your choir moving around, etc..., and then store that noise in a wave file.
Then after recording your songs, recall that noise, and apply it as a filter to your recording. Cool Edit claims that it works. I have tried it and it doesn't. May be it is just me. But it doesn't.
However you did not tell us that how you record your songs to, to what media. If you record them digitally then the clicks, pops and noises are typical of digital recording. It seems like in the digital era, the converters do not know how to treat the noises here and there, unlike our analog counterparts. I've been having so much problems with one of my singers with her lip smacking noises. On playback it sounds like distortion. Now I am talking just about her vocal track, and not the entire mix.
Well there is help. If digital is what you record to, then try to install a limiter before the digital recorder. It will do wonders to your recordings as far as noises are concerned. You see, according to Bob Katz, when you adjust the level on your board, it is constant levels, and not peak transient levels. The meters on most boards can never show peak levels, they only show constant or average levels. If you can see the transient levels then you will see that they go well over the red lines. In fact you are distorting all the times, but for a very short period each time only. But that is enough to drive your digital AD converters to clip!!!
Good Luck!:o

[BradLyons]

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