How to Remove Noise - Wind Noise, Mouth Clicks, Background Noise & Static - Adobe Audition Tutorial

Noise reduction and restoration is a common problem and something Adobe Audition solves really well. The native noise removal tools work fantastically well. Here's how to fix common issues such as wind noise, mouth clicks along with background noise and static.
Adobe Audition Learn Series Part 10:
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0:00 - Intro
0:16 - Removing wind rumble background noise
0:40 - Parametric equalizer high pass filter for wind noise reduction
2:35 - Removing backgoround noise after wind removal
3:54 - How to remove mouth clicks
4:39 - Enhancing mouth clicks with compression
5:00 - Audio restoration in spectral frequency display
7:30 - Removing static noise and hiss
8:07 - Using noise reduction instead of DeNoise
8:27 - Capturing a noise print
8:55 - Using the noise reduction (process) effect
9:02 - Switching on preview mode
9:26 - Tweaking noise reduction settings
10:17 - High pass filter to eliminate rumble and hum
11:00 - Using the dynamics effect to introduce a noise gate
12:09 - Audio before noise reduction and conclusion
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* Microphone: RØDE VideoMic Pro+ - geni.us/vlogpro
* Software: Adobe Audition - mrc.fm/audition

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[@MikeRussell]

Glad to have helped.
While it's not necessary to have a quality mic and sound treatmenet to get into voice work if you want to pitch for the higher end (better paying) jobs you'll need an acoustically treated space and at least a mid-range mic to get through the auditions for jobs as a quality producer will be able to spot the post processing.

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May I ask a question: if the wind is really high, I get some wind noise despite using small dead cats on lavalier microphones. After I remove that with hi-pass, the voice sounds A LITTLE like listening through a phone - I hope you get what I mean, it's just higher and not so warm. Do you have a method how to improve that after reducing the wind noise?
Thanks again - keep going!

[@MikeRussell]

I think the issue here is that the wind noise is more than just low rumble. Using the HP filter will cure the wind noise but in doing so you're also removing the lower frequencies in your voice which, once removed, you cannot add back.
Perhaps look at the HP filter lower down, no higher than 120hz and a combination of that and De-noise or adaptive noise reduction.

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Thanks, Mike. Much appreciated. I'll give that a try! Maybe I'm just too picky 🤣

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