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Me too, Mike is the MVP

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100%. This will not touch the quality of your audio. DeNoise will and Adaptive Noise Reduction can sometimes take a second to kick in.

Another item to note and it's why I came here to see how to do a noise gate in Audition. Say you record a podcast and there are 4 voices talking into directional dynamic cardioid microphones, but because of proximity the mics pick up not just background noise but the other people talking. It records these at lower volumes. You don't want those voices while you are personally silent and the same goes for the other's mics being recorded. Noise Reduction uses pattern recognition to identify identical sounds and remove them. Say you are doing an interview and a bell starts ringing in the background while talking and continues while nobody is talking. You can sample the point where nobody is talking and use it to remove the sound when people are talking. But These background voices I mentioned are not removable using that feature. The best thing to do is mute any mic not in use while recording, but that's not always practical while you are hosting and playing engineer on your portable equipment. So a noise gate will do just that for you in post. I was using a Zoom Podtrak P4 which is marvelous if you are using it in a regular room with a fan or an AC running in the distance, and can distance yourself or do phone in's as it has it's own noise gate to cut out typical background noise. But this situation I described will need a noise gate hardware solution or one in post.

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Glad to hear the noise gate tip was helpful for improving the sound of your Yeti mic. If you need a warmer sound consider experimenting with equalization or adding a compressor or limiter in Adobe Audition.

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Thank you for watching! I'm glad you found the tutorial helpful and straightforward.

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Yay, so awesome! Glad to be of help 😊

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@@MikeRussell Oh Audio Guru of Audition Excellence, just a suggestion for a future video: "Mike's 5 Steps for Podcast/recording editing" where you share your have to-do's to make a recoding perfect? First Noise Gate or Speach level, or EQ first, kinda stuff. We all have our workflow that works, but might not be the best way.

Have a look at this video kzfaq.info/get/bejne/b5yEf7CB2cm9m58.html

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@@MikeRussell And that fact that you always take the time to respond. LEGEND!

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Hi Sean, I'd recommend updating to the latest version. If the birds are that loud the noise gate will be easily detectable with the bird noises reappearing when the voice is on which could produce some very unnatural sounding audio. On the flip side de noise, or any noise reduction technique does lower the overall sound quality so the best option is to find a recording space that's acoustically sweet and away from the birds.

@@MikeRussell thank you, Mike. It's saying I am on the latest version of Audition, but I am on 2018. Seems this feature was 2019 onwards? I'll check on my Creative Cloud view.

Managed to download the latest, so I am playing with the de-noise option now. Thank you again kind sir.

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Glad to help, your audio projects just got a lot cleaner with the Noise Gate technique in Adobe Audition!

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Just remember that if your audio is noisy the noise gate will emphasise this so strive for getting your recording as best as possible at source

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Top tip, always try to minimise the background noise at source but this is a useful trick to know to cut out any last bits.

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Thanks so much for the awesome feedback, Gary 😃

Good point although I've not found a better noise gate than the one on the dbx 286s.

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Yes! Search "how to make your voice sound better" and look for my videos about this topic 😄

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Thank you so much for your support and subscription! I'm glad you found the video helpful.

For recording audio books my honest answer would be to avoid using a noisegate and get your recording environment as quiet as possible. If you must use a noise gate then I'd recommend using it as early on as possible and "repairing" your audio before processing it. Just be careful that the noise gate doesn't leave the audio obvious sounding that a gate has been used.

@@MikeRussell ooooh ok thanks for that insight. And I can see why you recommend that because it is hard to get an accurate level for long recordings...

The issue with the noise gate is that is either all audio on or all audio off. If there is background audio it will be made more noticeable by the noise gate as you’ll hear it cutting back in when you are speaking.

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Hi Johnnie, you can get hardware noise gates that will work as you wish. Search the channel for the videos on the dbx286s 👍

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You can set up different processing for each track in the multitrack

Eduardo Arake I want to know that too man! Mike pls help!

Try to use parametric eq and take the button HP on and cut the frequency

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Strange. The dbx286s has worked well for me, there's two of them in our live studio.

@@MikeRussell Thanks Mike. I can't help but wonder if the 286S does a steller job of gating the ambient sounds in my office, but the sounds come through when I'm speaking. WOuld you have a video on setting up the 286s? Maybe I"ve done something wrong?

What you describe is exactly what the expander gate is designed to do. It cuts all sounds below the threshold but once audio goes above the threshold all audio is allowed through. You want to eliminate the noise at source wherever possible if it detracts from the vocal recording. Here's video of my most recent settings kzfaq.info/get/bejne/n6hyfqmd3JaVoaM.html

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Specially for my voiceovers, which one takes it out better without affecting the quality

Hi IsaBella, the best way to eliminate this is at source? Do you know where it's coming from? Is it possible to eliminate? Also how loud is the background noise? If it isn't overpowered the voice over you may be able to use a noise gate to eliminate the noise but if it's clearly audible in the voice recording a noise gate will not work for you.

Thank you for your support! To adjust the attack time above 10ms in Adobe Audition's Noise Gate, try increasing the Hold parameter for a longer attack time.

@@MikeRussell didn't work, I did manage to get better results with izotope neutron. thank you very much for those vidoes!

It could be set as default as long as nothing changes but you should always be prepared to make subtle adjustments

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I would usually recommend using a noise gate first

I would suggest processing the audio in post would be your best option. If you want to process in real time then get a dbx286s and set that up but that will only work with a XLR mic

@@MikeRussell thanks, Mike. I’ll keep that in mind. I thought maybe it would work to develop a preset of sorts. If I’m always recording in the same room I could kill the noise beforehand, but I defer to your expertise! Much appreciated.