I have a background track that I downloaded for practicing guitar along with. One of the tracks has static in it. Reminds me of the vinyl days. Maybe that was their intent when they recorded it? Anyway, while jamming along, it has only been a minor annoyance. Recently I decided to import the track into Sonar so I can practice mixing it with a lead track. Now I am finding the static quite annoying.
 
Is there a simple way to remove it?
 
I found a video online that used Audacity to remove static but that method, as I understand it, won't work. In the tutorial, they relied on a quiet stretch to profile the static and then remove it from the track. In this case, the static is only present when there is music playing. The results were not good :-)
 
I tried the new style dial gater but since the static is "on top" of the music, it doesn't work.
 
I tried a narrow band cut but that did not work either.
 
Any other ideas?
 
Thanks
 

You can always find the frequency and remove or mute it using Adobe Audition or iZotope RX 5.
Adobe Audition has a noise removal feature and RX 5 lets you look at the entire file manually and remove it by hand.
 
To use noise removal you have to have an isolated section of the noise to scan, without any instruments or anything over it.

DragonBlood
You can always find the frequency and remove or mute it using Adobe Audition or iZotope RX 5.
Adobe Audition has a noise removal feature and RX 5 lets you look at the entire file manually and remove it by hand.
 
To use noise removal you have to have an isolated section of the noise to scan, without any instruments or anything over it.

Unfortunately I have neither of those tools nor is there a quiet section with the noise I want to remove. If I did, I think Audacity (free) would have worked.
 
Thanks

Compressed sib noises are hideous. Run a de-ess on sections with envelopes

Your ability to remove noise depends on how consistent it is. If it's uniform, like fan noise, it can be removed fairly easily with a noise-removal tool. Audacity has one. It's not great but can be quite effective with the "right" kind of noise, especially if you can isolate a section that's just noise.
 
Random clicks and pops are harder to get rid of. Adobe Audition has a pop remover that works pretty well. Don't know if Audacity does. For the kind of problem you describe, you may have to resort to some deep editing and volume automation.
 
Can you post a sample?

maximumpower
I have a background track that I downloaded for practicing guitar along with. One of the tracks has static in it. Reminds me of the vinyl days. Maybe that was their intent when they recorded it? Anyway, while jamming along, it has only been a minor annoyance. Recently I decided to import the track into Sonar so I can practice mixing it with a lead track. Now I am finding the static quite annoying.
 
Is there a simple way to remove it?
 
I found a video online that used Audacity to remove static but that method, as I understand it, won't work. In the tutorial, they relied on a quiet stretch to profile the static and then remove it from the track. In this case, the static is only present when there is music playing. The results were not good :-)
 
I tried the new style dial gater but since the static is "on top" of the music, it doesn't work.
 
I tried a narrow band cut but that did not work either.
 
Any other ideas?
 
Thanks
 

Send me the file and I'll remove it for you if it can be removed. My first and last name @ my first and last name (like it is on the forum without caps) with no spaces of course. :)
 
I should be able to remove it in one pass with the stuff I have in about 10 seconds. It may not be perfect (or who knows, we may get lucky and nail it) but I promise it will be 100% better than it is now. I love challenging noises, pops, clicks, oscillations etc. I've only had one my entire time doing this that I couldn't fix no matter what I tried. Send it through...should take me a few seconds. :)
 
-Danny

@Danny, thank you for doing this! I sent you an email with a link.
 
@Bit, I will post a before and after of the intro. That is where it is the most obvious.

The good news is....
 
It's totally fixable to where I can totally remove it to where you can't even notice it was ever there.
 
The bad news is, I'd have to literally treat every section individually using a tool that can't be used "on the whole file". It would probably take me 4 hours or more to do a 7 minute tune like this. LOL! And of course, I wouldn't even charge a client nor would I take on the job unless someone was stuck with this as a song that was theirs. Hahaha!
 
The semi-good news is....I was able to come up with a tool that with some experimenting, could be used on the entire song. I'd say it's a 90% improvement to where you can barely tell anything is going on. The artifact that you will hear is it took a few of the clicks/crackles and somewhat toned them down to where the high end isn't as apparent and it almost sounds like a soft driven type of thing. You'll hear what I mean....it's WAY better than it was though...and this only took about 20 minutes which is better than 4 + hours that I wouldn't have done anyway! LOL!!!!
 
I also took the level down a bit for you because it was clipping like mad on my end. So this should get you where you need to be as far as a guitar backer goes. Uggh...why did they choose Bb! We as rock guitar players don't play in Bb!
 
OK at least *I* haven't had to play in that key much. Hahaha! It seems Eb/D#, F, G#/Ab are the keys I've played in the least in my years playing. When I HAVE had to play in those keys, it was because someone was tuned down or something. However, thankfully I've been playing in all keys my whole life just in case....but when those pop up, it takes me a few seconds to remember where I am! LOL!
 
Anyway, let me know how this worked out for you. Merry Christmas to you and everyone else on the forum.
 
-Danny

Thanks to Danny, the track sounds much better to me.
 
This is just a sample of the intro. The first half is the original and the second is after Danny applied some noise reduction techniques.
 
https://soundcloud.com/maxpower-41/jtnr/s-3wpRl