-: Let's take a look
at how I would remove the background noise
and make this sound better.
Now, I will say this was a very tough clip
because we had that bad noise from the background
from the freeway that really is all frequencies.
It's high frequencies, low frequencies, mid frequencies,
and what that means is that the same frequencies
as my voice are happening in the background
and creating this background noise,
and if I remove those, I remove my voice as well,
so it's a bit tricky, but let me show you what I did.
First, let me just show you what it sounds like after:
Hey, this is Phil in my backyard
And before:
Hey, this is Phil in my backyard
I used the EQ tool,
and that's all I needed to make this sound better.
And one word of advice
is to use headphones while you're editing.
So, let me just play through this,
I'm gonna delete this EQ and start from scratch.
And in this practise lesson
So, one tip is to find a spot
where you just see the background noise.
So let's go here, I got this clip on my timeline,
I can see right here I'm not talking,
so I'm actually going to put an end point here,
and then go right before I start talking
and put an out point.
Then I'm going to turn on loop play,
this is something that we haven't seen
and it's right here.
If you don't see this loop play button,
click this little plus button
and then just click and drag the loop option button
down here into this toolbar.
And you see there's lots of other tools here
that you can play around with.
Make sure that's highlighted,
and now if you click play it loops through this clip
just where I have the in and out points.
My face looks ridiculous but that's OK,
I'm gonna deal with that
while I add the EQ effect to this clip.
So search for EQ and add it,
then click under Custom Setup, Edit.
OK, I'm gonna block my face cuz that is just annoying.
What we wanna do is actually use the EQ tool
to figure out where the noise is coming from.
Right now, we're just listening to the background noise,
so if I click on Mid2,
and then I basically drag this up,
what I can hear if I sweep to the left or to the right,
I can kinda hear where it's loudest,
where the most of the frequencies are.
Down here at the left there's not that many.
Over here on the right there's not that many either,
but as I get in this range, 1000 to 2000, 3000,
that seems to be the hot spot of where the big noise is.
And so by knowing that
I can then just take this point
and drop it down all the way.
And that sounds a lot better,
it's cutting out a lot of that background noise.
Then if I uncheck loop play
and play through this.
audio of this video
I can just smooth this out
by extending the curve like so
so that it doesn't sound as robotic.
shotgun microphone plugged into my Canon 70D
I can turn this on and off to hear what it sounds like
by checking the toggle on and off button here.
probably about a mile away there's a freeway
So one thing we wanna do is use this output slider
to increase the output.
and you can probably hear
So we don't lose any of the actual volume.
Even though we're getting rid of some sounds,
we wanna make sure that my voice is still the same level.
in the audio too
The other thing I'm going to do
is check the Low and the High buttons
and make it a cut.
Then I'm gonna change the low from 50 hertz to 200
and the high from 10,000 to
I'm gonna go a little bit further than normal, to 4500.
just sitting in my back yard I actually built this
So that's cutting all the frequencies above 4500
and below 200.
So if I exit outta here,
this weekend
that's one of my hobbies that I've been doing lately
so take this audio and try to
And turn on and off the EQ effect,
you can kinda hear back and forth what it sounds like.
And while it's not perfect,
and it's just because the situation wasn't perfect,
it is better.
So hopefully you were able to get something similar to that
with your own practise.
If you have any questions please let me know,
or if you have any other ways
that you were actually able to make this video even better,
please let me know.
I would be happy to see what different effects
or different settings you used yourself.