12 Replies Latest reply: May 31, 2009 3:27 AM by Michelmnr RSS

    How can I eliminate strong wind noise with audition?

    Michelmnr Community Member

      Hi, I have some recorded tape of a wedding on a beach on  a very windy day with a fairly ordinary digital jvc video camera. I tried to use the equaliser but did not really achieve or improve much of anything. Would Audition allow me to do this?

       

      MM

        • 1. Re: How can I eliminate strong wind noise with audition?
          SteveG(AudioMasters) Community Member

          Unfortunately I don't think that anything is going to help you much here - it's why pro recordists (and anybody else who realises what the problem is) use big fluffy windgags on mics outside - even when there's hardly any wind at all. These break up the direct blasts considerably, and randomise the air movements around the gag itself. As a consequence, inside the gag there's an area of still air around the mic itself, and that stops the blast effects on the diaphragm.

           

          The problem with wind is that it's not constant in level or sound type - the bandwidth varies too. Audition can reduce constant background sounds quite effectively, but wind doesn't even begin to qualify here - and as a consequence, there's no way that Noise Reduction can help you - even the newer adaptive sort doesn't fix wind problems. And before you ask, there's no other software that can help either - this random high level noise is all over the wanted parts of your recording, so whatever you do, it's also going to affect that.

           

          That said, often you can fix some of the problems by rolling off all of the bass in the signal - say, everything below 100 Hz, because that's usually where the worst effects are, and there generally isn't much speech content below 100Hz anyway. But once you've done that, you don't really have anywhere else to go with this, I'm afraid.

          • 2. Re: How can I eliminate strong wind noise with audition?
            Michelmnr Community Member

            Thank you Steve for your email.

            • 3. Re: How can I eliminate strong wind noise with audition?
              Michelmnr Community Member

              Hi again Steve, I did reply your email, but just found out it bounced back! so here is the content

               

              Thank you Steve, I was afraid I'd get this kind of answer. Still I'll have another go at the bass because i was trying to get the speech a little clearer... So this question has been answered :)

              MM

              • 6. Re: How can I eliminate strong wind noise with audition?
                Michelmnr Community Member

                Yes how???

                There is no text in your answer.

                • 7. Re: How can I eliminate strong wind noise with audition?
                  plarsen@mail.tele.dk Community Member

                  This is because I tried to post normally with quote included, but this time

                  without quote prefix, because I thought that the post might then go through

                  in normal messaging format.

                   

                  Reading off-line with no included quote makes it impossible for me to know

                  what this is about, but for a general comment I can say that the designers

                  of Windows Media Player who decided to make it unable to read CD-text have

                  progressed and now design messaging software for adobe.

                   

                  If my know-how is wanted on this here board then they will have to fix it so

                  that it does not discard my posts.

                   

                  If you want to know what was in those apparently empty posts - they weren't

                  empty and contained fine know-how of general interest - you will have to ask

                  Adobe for it. They have discarded it so they can find it. I type here pro

                  bono and  off-line, I stopped reading on line back in the BBS age when

                  off-line reading was considered a major progress. This here crap is poorer

                  than the most primitive real BBS I ever used.

                   

                    Kind regards

                   

                    Peter Larsen

                  • 8. Re: How can I eliminate strong wind noise with audition?
                    Michelmnr Community Member

                    I did reply this post by email but, yes it's not here

                    And now I have to endure anxiety for the remaining of my days, unless Adobe bring this content back to life. Hmm, as a previous Autralian Prime minister coined this memorable phrase: "Life was not supposed to be easy"

                    • 9. Re: How can I eliminate strong wind noise with audition?
                      SteveG(AudioMasters) Community Member

                      Michelmnr wrote:

                       

                      And now I have to endure anxiety for the remaining of my days, unless Adobe bring this content back to life.

                      It's not that bad - a cure won't suddenly have materialised...

                      • 10. Re: How can I eliminate strong wind noise with audition?
                        Michelmnr Community Member

                        Ha ha, I think more like...gone with the...wind

                        Apart from this I was wondereing why your email has the word "won't"  (like on your post here) starting and ending with the + sign? (yes, as if i didn't have enough things to worry about!)

                        MM

                        • 11. Re: How can I eliminate strong wind noise with audition?
                          SteveG(AudioMasters) Community Member

                          Michelmnr wrote:

                           

                          Apart from this I was wondereing why your email has the word "won't"  (like on your post here) starting and ending with the + sign?

                          You have to bear in mind that I didn't send you an email - this stupid system did. I have deliberately turned all that off as far as recieving them is concerned, and if I could, I'd stop the system sending them at all to anybody, because they are tantamount to spam. If anybody posts something on a forum and they are particularly interested in any replies they get, what's wrong with just looking at the forum occasionally? It's not exactly an arduous task, after all...

                          • 12. Re: How can I eliminate strong wind noise with audition?
                            Michelmnr Community Member

                            Forum for me is somehow a new experience, although I have utilised it for a few years, but never enough to quite understand its mechanism and I still struggle to get my way around. Really I was just curious, a little like a fish looking at a bicycle. But yes I've got to disociate these emails with people writting directly in the forum - Just the same i'm grateful for the notification which, in my case, is a real help as I'm having some challenge to keep up with forums inputs. So here we are with the good, the bad and perhaps sometimes the ugly. So far for me it remains a positive exercise, and a way to learn I have never experience before the event of Web and Fo...ra

                            We're getting away from the wind noise now!

                            MM