garbage in, garbage out; sometimes it's a hard learned lesson. if cutting 300hz and below is causing the loss of hum and speech then it must be a real bad recording. i've used the Rezound arbitrary fir filter to remove air conditioner fans from the U.S. national turkey and owl callers conferance. of course filtering is filtering and... ron --- Alex Polite <notmyprivateemail@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thanks for all the input. > > I did some experimentation with jamin. Cutting of > everything below 300 > Hz sure helped alot. But the harmonics went right > through the speech > spectrum so canceling them all out pretty much meant > canceling the > speech out as well. > > I found freqtweak and hooked that up. It did > produce a very beautiful > spectrogram but it didn't solve my problem. > > I need something smarter. Something that will 1) > take a few seconds > of audio when there's no speech (only hum) and treat > that as a > baseline. 2) Reduce the frequencies all over by that > baseline. > > In effect analyzing the tool would look at the hum > and create a filter > that matches it exactly. I guess there's a word for > that? > > alex > > -- > Alex Polite > http://flosspick.org - finding the right open source > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com