[linux-audio-user] Noise removal, what filter is best?

[Tim Beauregard]

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RTaylor wrote:
| On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 08:38:07 +0100 Anahata <anahata at treewind.co.uk> wrote:
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|  I have a bunch of files like that...
|
|  I used a demo denoiser that I mistook as freeware... and stupidly
deleted
|  the originals before I listened to the real output of the program.
|
|  The only way to really remove them is to cut them out. Seeing as they're
|  evenly placed... You can create some nifty sound samples by altering the
|  pitch a bit and putting a delay on them. Some of it sounds pretty
gorgeous.
|
|  The best thing I've found for noisecarving is a program called in-tune
|  {Australian... I believe it's been competed away by some commercial
|  program called intune} It's windows like d/noise. If you can find it {I
|  can't} it seems like it might run under wine. {It may have even come
with
|  source} Seems to me a lot of small windows sound utilities might.}
|
|  I have had good luck at cleaning stuff up with just the basic tools in
|  snd {{reverb dontcha' know...} :} You can twist the hell out of it too.}
|  You might try some of the FFT stuff or even get fancy like this:
|
|  http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/guides/planetccrma/node48.html
|
|  ...Maybe try mixing it with another file...
|

OK been wading through your suggestions, and have decided the suggestion
of manual alteration of the noise within audacity will be my method.  I
can't get my head around the more complex software, even though I'm sure
they can do what I need.

Thanks so much to everyone who contributed answers.

Tim
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