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Subject:Need help reducing Plosives Posted by: NSR Date:7/30/2002 10:48:38 AM I am still very green when it comes to Sound Forge. A fellow student gave me an interview to edit for a school assignment. I guess the lav was too close to the subjects mouth, because the audio has many plosives throughout the interview. I asked on another site how one would reduce these, and I was given the following answer: "Reduce plosives and breathe IN words by reducing/dipping around 200 hz, and then cutting across the spectrum with an 18dB rolloff from that point down... In between words, just use a Ushape envelope to drop the breathing, and use silence from another section to fill in the 'blank' that the envelope creates." This seems like great info, but I do not know what tools to use in Forge to accomplish this. If anybody can point me in the right direction towards what I need to do to implement the previos suggestion, I would greatly appreciate it. This would be a great learning experience for me, because this is exactly the type of thing I would do with this program. To take it one step further, I can even email somone an example of the audio problem I am having. Thank you in advance for any help you can provide, Keith
Subject:RE: Need help reducing Plosives Reply by: Ted_H Date:7/30/2002 10:52:20 AM There is a multi-band dynamics preset to deal with plosives. It is located in Effects/Dynamics/Multi-band. Try that first. Ted
Subject:RE: Need help reducing Plosives Reply by: NSR Date:7/30/2002 11:01:14 AM You guys are rock stars! That worked very well. Thanks. Keith

I am still very green when it comes to Sound Forge. A fellow student gave me an interview to edit for a school assignment. I guess the lav was too close to the subjects mouth, because the audio has many plosives throughout the interview.

I asked on another site how one would reduce these, and I was given the following answer:
"Reduce plosives and breathe IN words by reducing/dipping around 200 hz, and then cutting across the spectrum with an 18dB rolloff from that point down...
In between words, just use a Ushape envelope to drop the breathing, and use silence from another section to fill in the 'blank' that the envelope creates."

This seems like great info, but I do not know what tools to use in Forge to accomplish this. If anybody can point me in the right direction towards what I need to do to implement the previos suggestion, I would greatly appreciate it. This would be a great learning experience for me, because this is exactly the type of thing I would do with this program.

To take it one step further, I can even email somone an example of the audio problem I am having.

Thank you in advance for any help you can provide,
Keith