How can I clean up this audio file?

Factual Questions
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I have an audio file with some hissing and crackling in the background. Is there any way to fix this using Adobe Premier Pro 1.5? If not, what program would I need to get?

Thanks.

XP39C^2

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You could try Audacity - it’s an open-source audio editing/mixing application and is pretty damn good; it has a noise filter - the way it works is that you first select as large a bit of the file that is supposed to be silent(i.e. consists entirely of noise) as you can find, then click ‘get noise profile’ in the noise removal filter - this teaches it what sort of things you’re wanting to remove - then you select the entire track and apply the filter.

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In fact if your link worked, I’d try it for you, to save you installing a bit of software that might not work for you.

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Hmmm… I can’t seem to get your link to work, either. Could I just email the clip to you?

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Sure; if you email it to themangetout@yahoo.com, I’ll take a look at it tonight.

Dunno what happened to my link; it should have been: http://audacity.sourceforge.net

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That is going to be hard to fix.

If Mangetout doesn’t have any luck with it I can try with Protools. Let me know.

Noise gates and filters work pretty well unless the background noise is at the same volume or higher than the desired sound. That clip has a ton of noise and it is loud compared to the voice. I haven’t tried fixing anything with that much noise using ProTools yet.

Slee

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I managed to download the file in the end; here is a cleaned-up version of it - most of the words are audible now.

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Grr… Dunno what’s going wrong with my links lately.
fixed link

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BTW, please let me know when you’ve downloaded a copy of that file, so I can delete it from my web space.

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Holy schnoinkies, that is way cleaner.

I might have to d/l Audacity. I don’t know if Protools would clean it up that much.

Slee

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The noise filter that comes with Audacity is quite a clever one, but works especially well with audio material such as this - where there are substantial parts that are supposed to be silent (and so consist entirely of noise) - it makes training the filter so much more effective.