@jetdv Thanks I'll have a look at that, 👍 That's good to hear as quite a bit of the audio in my vids is me describing what I'm doing (not in this vid), I'm not stood in front of the camera & I haven't got a loud voice so when I have tried other 'auto' reduction options it quietens my voice too much also, but like I say I'll have a play 👍

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A quick play with it just reducing the Input Gain I can def hear the machines are softer & easier to listen to, they don't screech so much & then when the machines are turned off the normal sound of the room, tape measure noises, little knocks n bangs are all back to to the normal level 😁

Thanks again that's very promising, I need to search what the other controls do in Track Compressor & I'll try it on my voice in a clip that's also got machine noise 👍

@Gid One thing I've used in some windy situations to help pull out the voice is the efx_VocalStrip effect.

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If your voice and the tool noise are occurring at the same time , a comp/limiter will not help much or even make matters worse. To have more control over the two sound sources, iZ's RX or Steinberg's SpectraLayers can separate the sound to a degree. Unfortunately neither are far from free.

If it is just to keep the overall volume under control, a limiter would suffice as was previously stated. If you can post a clip somewhere, we could offer more accurate advice.

btw, welcome to the Vegas users community @Gid.

btw, welcome to the Vegas users community @Gid.

I'm a little confused, to me @Gid seems the same person as the former member @Gid, who was quite active on the forum before. Why this name change?

Also I can't find no posts anymore of the user @Gid, means they are all deleted (probably also the reason that @Gid-Joiner can't find his former posts).

If it's possible to delete all posts of a certain member, the forum search function makes no sense, because all threads with the contributions of this member will get broken.

I'm a little confused, to me @Gid-Joiner seems the same person as the former member @Gid, who was quite active on the forum before.

Indeed, @FormerUser posted video examples of loud clipped shop equipment interspersed with normal narrative at normal levels not very long ago.

If that was about the same issue from the same poster, it would be nice to have a link to the original post which contained examples.

If the OP's in-camera AGC can handle the levels, that might be the first thing to try.

Otherwise, there is a large enough gap between the two peak levels for Wave Hammer to isolate the clipped noise sections, and deal with them effectively as I suggested above.

Although any limiter should work, I also am a strong advocate for Toneboosters Barricade 4. It is a paid solution, but can be run in demo mode forever.

@3POINT  Unfortunately the forum does not have an option for a member to just "Close account" and let the members still see their previous Posting history.. The posts/comments are not deleted, but are now from a (basically) untraceable "Former user".

@vkmast Strange, I don't understand why close an account and start over with a new account. If it's just that user wants a new nickname, then just rename the account...or do I think too simple?

@3POINT @mark-y Hi, yes that's me, my previous comments are still there under @FormerUser, I didn't delete those example.

I haven't asked about this subject for at least 2yrs, sorry whoever you're thinking of I don't think it was me, as in my OP I haven't done any work since late summer 2022, no work means no recording.. If you can find that link to the post ..

I had a problem uploading on here but also on other sites online & the PC was doing some strange things., it was at the same time there were server issues with this forum when that cookies window popped up & it was hard or slow to log-in, so I did a complete wipe of a lot of things, cookies, extensions, I deleted 'stuff' from the PC, reset windows, deleted quite a few online accounts & prob didn't need to delete this one but it was 'shock n horror' clean of everything. I hadn't offended anyone & I wasn't kicked off so I hoped that there wouldn't be a prob signing back in, which there hasn't 👍

When I did sign back in it remembered my name 🤷‍♂️ Gid-Joiner so I went with that, I've just shortened it to just Gid 👍

@rraud Hi n nope I never talk while the machines are going, you wouldn't hear me & in those moments I'm too busy to be gabbing .😏

I'm at work on my phone so I'll read the other stuff about Wave hammer etc. when home 👍

Thanks 👍

Now @Gid-Joiner is @Gid again...very confusing...

@Gid thank you for explaining. Please note though that "Former user":is a bunch of members who deleted their account.

@3POINT his most recent post history is still available as the account was not deleted this time.

@vkmast Thanks, I did see some posts by a "Former user", after creating a new account I went to my old conversations to catch up on what was happening or if there were replies & scrolling through the posts to find those I saw "Former user" thinking it was my comment but it wasn't,

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This is the last email I have before I closed & created a new account, I'm @Formeruser in the previous comments, then there's a 7day gap while I sorted out my PC & online stuff, then there's my @Gid comments iEmby's post

@Gid If you memorize the points in this thread you'll probably have more questions, but the underlying concepts will help in your current quest.

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If you can go through your timeline and select the events you want to lower (using CTRL to select mulitple), you can try this for volume control.

@john_dennis Thanks, yep I already have questions about @jetdv's suggestion of the Compressor never mind the other stuff mentioned 🤦‍♂️😂

@DMT3 Hi, I'm watching on my phone but It looks like that is what I've done in the past, I've 397 vids on YT, not all have lots of machine noise but most have some noise & ones like this one in my OP I was just hoping maybe for a better/easier solution,

Some clips have noise & then voice all in the same clip, in your example I'd have to make a cut before & after ever noise that needs reducing, Like I say there's 5 different machines in this project, I'd have to go through each to see which machine is which. My thoughts were along the lines of if I could assign a region to each & categorise it as I went along, group those regions with others of the same machine, then I could select that group of regions & lower their volume in one go, I could then watch the project through & easily choose all Saw or planer etc. & tweak the noise of those, but it sounds like something like the Compressor or another fx might be the way.. Thanks.

I do some wookworking videos as well, and I don't think the compressor will do everything you need. I am sure you will still have to go through and isolate some of your noisy tracks to adjust. It takes time as you know. Vegasaur will select regions, but I don't see a way to name them so you can select specific ones.

@DMT3 Yep I've tried in the past with an audio envelope, creating regions as i go along, I can name each region saw 1, saw2, planer 1, planer 2, I can then easily select a region with double click on it or press 1, 2, 3 etc but as you say I can't select multiple regions & drag them down to the same level.. I don't have Vegasaur so can't spk of that..

I don't know much about scripting, but I would think that a script would be written that would select regions with a common name. You might ask @jetdv

Gid, going forward for future shop demonstrations, try your in-camera AGC as your first line of defense against loud bursts.

Gid, going forward for future shop demonstrations, try your in-camera AGC as your first line of defense against loud bursts.

@mark-y I've destroyed more than one phone camera mic over the yrs, I've now got a Bluetooth plugin thing that will hopefully protect the phone's built in mic but I'll have a look at AGC for the actual recording ... thanks

@DMT3 

a script would be written that would select regions with a common name

That would be useful, sometimes I need to also raise my voice along with reducing noise, I'm sure others would find a script like that useful also 👍

@Gid If you memorize the points in this thread you'll probably have more questions, but the underlying concepts will help in your current quest.

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@john_dennis Hi, forgot to say thanks for the link, I'll go through it & see what sense I can make of,

I really appreciate the replies from everyone with suggestions but I suspect if I did ask about this, however many yrs ago it was, the replies were similar, I'm a person who rarely strays far from the volume button so when opening these fx's they mean nothing to me & I end up searching online to try to understand what's what, I very much doubt all this can be learned in an evening or two of browsing blogs which I then inevitably have to do further searching to understand those blogs. We'll see, I'll go through that link you posted 👍

If you can post a clip somewhere, we could offer more accurate advice.

@rraud Thanks, I'll sort a clip out for you, as this is mainly about multiple machines making different noise levels & I can't just reduce the volume of all the noisy parts as one I'll try make a clip that includes a few different machines, 👍 + my mumbled voice 😏

Does it have to be straight from the phone, I could make a shorter version of my OP project, render that out & share that?