В сообщении от 5 февраля 2006 23:49 Sampo Savolainen написал(a): > > I desperately need a noise gate, or something else to remove breathing > > sounds. Could anyone help me find one? > > There is a ladspa plugin called: "Gate" by Steve Harris. It's available > in the swh-plugins package. But .. OK, that would be fine. Is there a HOWTO on installing LADSPA plugins for use with Audacity available somewhere? > > I am recording using Audacity 1.2.3 from a rather simple microphone, and > > breathing sounds are clearly heard when the speaker inhales air; from the > > look of the graph, it seems that a simple noise gate would remove them. > > But I could not find a noise gate in Audacity 1.2.3... > > ... setting up a gate in audacity is painstaking as you can't do it in > realtime. No problem. In fact I prefer the Audacity way of doing it. We're doing a voice recording, not a concert, so having many tries is good. > If you really want to use audacity, you can also do this with jack-rack Definitely don't want to go there. Jack setup is a major hassle; with no realtime need, I don't see why it would be worth the time. > When gating the signal though, i suggest that after finding the right > parameters for the gate to work correctly, try making the gate a "soft" > gate via the "Range" parameter. Breathing noise might be irritating at a > level, but vocals without breathing might sound unnatural. Agreed. Audacity giver many tries so it's easy. -- Yours, Mikhail Ramendik
