Hi -

I just had a teleseminar recorded, and as usual there were big peaks and valleys between both parties, eg on my end, recording with an mp3 tap device, I was loud, and the person I interviewed sounded much quieter...

What I just did was to go through and manually do a -6dB cut on my voice segments, and a +6dB boost on the interviewees segments, to somewhat normalize it, and now the waveform is all same height. But now there's way too much noise, particularly on the +6dB boosted segments.

Using Sound Forge 9, or Audition, or Vegas audio plugins/NR, any ideas on how I can now reduce overall noise to make it sound good?

I like using the newbluefx crisper plugin to get better audio, not sure how to reduce noise using the newblue audio plugins, or sony's NR plugin - any tips? Much appreciated... this is an important interview with a *very* famous person, and I'd like to make it as high-quality as possible..

(eventually I'll get higher end telephone recording equipment, that's the root cause answer... but for now, I need to improve the audio from what I have).

Thanks very much,

Ken

for example, one great tip I picked up from Jeffrey Fisher is to add rolloffs above/below high and low end frequencies, I do this in vegas with the track EQ, eg to limit/fade the very highs and very lows, to reduce distortion..

UPDATE: I used the NewBlue "Cleaner" plugin with their drop down setting "Hum and Noise Begone!", then upped the master gain in Vegas by +4.8dB and it's a beautiful audio... simply amazing.