Removing Background Noise in REAPER (ReaFIR)

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  • Опубликовано: 12 дек 2024

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  • @mstalcup
    @mstalcup 4 года назад +115

    Just getting started with Reaper in 2020, but this 5-year-old tutorial is still just as useful! Your presentation skills are excellent. Thank you.

    • @Bluelagoonstudios
      @Bluelagoonstudios 3 года назад +2

      Same here and agreed, Kenny is awesome!

    • @frikizeta4801
      @frikizeta4801 3 года назад +1

      @@Bluelagoonstudios Thank you!!

    • @ethandax8900
      @ethandax8900 3 года назад

      I guess im randomly asking but does anyone know a trick to log back into an Instagram account..?
      I was stupid forgot the login password. I love any help you can give me!

  • @BillGraper
    @BillGraper 4 года назад +104

    Hey Kenny. I just had a major breakthrough!!! My electric guitar solo had a bunch of static in the background & you could hear it in the mix. It was annoying. I did exactly what you said, and it was getting rid of the background noise. The problem was there was no "sweet spot" to get rid of the noise & keep the guitar sounding nice & crisp. I played around a little bit & discovered that if you don't use "control" (I'm on a PC), you can draw a straight line across & reshape the filter line. I flat-lined it really low & it got rid of the noise. I kept going lower & lower. In the end, I ended up with a completely flat line WAY at the bottom of the window. It was almost touching the very bottom of the window. The noise was completely gone!!! I kept turning the filter off & on & the guitar sounded exactly the same, and the static noise was completely gone!!!
    My discovery was you don't have to keep the "mountain peaks" in the filter. My noise wasn't "air conditioner" bad, but by flat-lining it all the way at the bottom, I was able to get rid of the noise without losing any (or much) quality. Your tutorial helped a LOT, but I had to do another workaround to get it to work properly for me. I just thought I'd let you know. Maybe you could do a follow-up tutorial on drawing in your own line in the ReaFir plugin. :)

    • @raduverdes2034
      @raduverdes2034 4 года назад +4

      Brilliant, thank you so much!

    • @berkeleybernie
      @berkeleybernie 4 года назад +24

      Yep! I didn't even know about Kenny's method and was just drawing the line manually last night on some dialog.
      I also made an FX chain:
      ReaEQ to high pass, getting rid of any low rumble off the bat
      ReaFIR to sculpt out noise, pre-gate
      ReaGate to catch any dead air background noise remaining between actual audio.
      Shocking how well this can work on spoken audio.

    • @raduverdes2034
      @raduverdes2034 4 года назад +7

      @@berkeleybernie Thank you sir for sharing this technique. All the best ! 🍀

    • @derekscanlan4641
      @derekscanlan4641 4 года назад +1

      I've got bad noise on a sustained power chord so I'll try this. Nice1

    • @Erudotic
      @Erudotic 4 года назад

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  • @gorkemgok9313
    @gorkemgok9313 2 года назад +9

    Dude, this guy is basically changing my life with these tutorials.

  • @jakefauber7073
    @jakefauber7073 Год назад +6

    Hey, Kenny! Great video! I discovered a way to get rid of all the ambient noise completely by combining this trick with another one. First, duplicate the track and flip the polarity. Place an 1176-style compressor on the polarity flipped track with fast attack and dial the release in to taste. This takes out most of the noise during and especially after the words. Next, build your noise profile with ReaFir and dial it in on one of the tracks with the other track muted. Finally, copy that ReaFir instantiation to the muted track just above the 1176 compressor and then unmute it. No background noise! Hope this helps everyone 😊

  • @quailstudios
    @quailstudios Год назад +2

    Hi Kenny, you uploaded this video in 2015 and I'm still using it today. Thank you so much. You are the best! Hal

  • @kurtotto1994
    @kurtotto1994 8 лет назад +10

    Mr. Gioia, great tutorial as usual. I can't praise your tutorials work enough. I only discovered you this month, Dec. 2016, but the effect of learning from you is phenomenal. As an old school keyboard player from "way back" I've been appreciating the fact you're a musician as well as an engineer. I've known about REAPER for over 10 years from friends who used it. I recently bought it as a way to more directly collaborate with a partner of mine. I was amazed to see how far REAPER has evolved and I decided to get into it 100%. Now that I've discovered "Kenny Mania" it has completely revolutionized my studio situation. I've had a multitrack studio here at my house since 1977. Many machines have come and gone since then. I'm on my 15th and 16th studio computers now, but this change to REAPER represents a step forward, especially with Kenny Gioia helping me over the learning curves I have to deal with! Thank you, sir!

  • @skmando
    @skmando 9 лет назад +8

    Great video - I use this technique a lot to clean up old tapes when digitising. A handy addition to this is to create another track and add a send from the original track to it, full signal, pre-fx. Then invert the phase on track 2 (or invert the phase via the send) and what you hear is what's being removed from the signal by reafir. Very similar to the 'difference' button in Waves X-Noise. It can be handy to audition how much musical content is being removed in addition to the noise. Just need to make sure that reafir is the only active plugin and that the two tracks are at the same volume/panning or you'll hear those differences as well when the inverted track is active. Thanks Kenny for posting this.

  • @crawlinginfilm9683
    @crawlinginfilm9683 4 года назад +3

    I think ReaFIR-type noise reduction is based on gating at each (eg of 1024) frequency-range/bin/bucket. So when a voice utterance happens to open a gate, that lets in not only the voice but also any noise in that range. If the noise is distinctive, the ear hears it gating in and out, it sounds weird. That’s another reason for leaving some of the noise (in addition to avoiding the robot voice) - so the contrast (gates opened/closed) is not so obvious (even if the noise itself is). This is why I ended up using 200 or so notches instead for cleaning up mains-buzzy audio (for a client’s own recording).

  • @Eighty5iveProd
    @Eighty5iveProd 9 лет назад +2

    I'm new to reaper. bought it bout 3weeks ago after using Sony acid pro for bout 8 yrs and I just wanted to thank u sooner much bro. been watching ur videos for bout 2weeks now. thought the learning curve was goin to be horrible and tedious but I really have to say....for the knowledge u know bout reaper u have helped me out 10x fold. thanks again.

  • @zblip22
    @zblip22 4 года назад +4

    If I may, there is a way to diminish the gargling sound. To do this you make a duplicate of the track without any plugin. You then insert an expander that is setup pretty aggressive, so that the back ground noise is ducked quickly between the words. Then you blend in this track ever so slightly. This material will fill in the blanks in the gargling sound and attenuate the gargling effect.

  • @zilkov_ae
    @zilkov_ae 9 лет назад +40

    This shy little plugin surely can replace some shiny plugin bundles sometimes.

  • @drillgirl718
    @drillgirl718 5 лет назад +18

    im throwin away all my mixing daws for reaper, man, i learned it in school but i always thought it was cheap and the expensive stuff was better, smh after all these years finally seeing the answer was in my face

  • @meganmcdonald01
    @meganmcdonald01 6 лет назад +6

    Thank you so much for this info! I didn't realize you could adjust the red line using the ctrl key. I've been struggling the past two days to balance my noise removal with reafir without having that robotic tone. Much appreciated!!

  • @TheREAPERBlog
    @TheREAPERBlog 9 лет назад +8

    This is great. I knew about this technique for years now but didn't have much luck with it. Now I know what to expect from it and might use it instead of RX4 on occasion.

  • @zero-jee
    @zero-jee 4 года назад +1

    Kenny is a gift to Humanity! Saved my ass more times than I can count!

  • @adrianhiggins4723
    @adrianhiggins4723 3 года назад

    This also loads as a VST into Cakewalk nicely. You provided a very clear use and demo of the free software. Thank you to Reaper and Kenny equally.

  • @KimCarter
    @KimCarter 2 года назад

    oh my GOD you're a lifesaver. Couldn't figure out why I still had a hiss. Changed the settings to what you said and BOOM. Fixed.

  • @FabioKasper
    @FabioKasper 9 лет назад +2

    Thank you Kenny. I have experienced a lot of robotic sounds due misuse of ReaFIR. The 1024 FFT resolution sounds like a good start, as I was working in the opposite direction (i.e., higher values).

  • @davefk
    @davefk 7 лет назад

    Noise reduction built into Reaper.....It just gets better. Thanks for this useful video Kenny.

  • @mullandglow
    @mullandglow 6 лет назад +2

    You just made the biggest difference in my recordings, holy shit, thank you.

  • @Kahnklingon84
    @Kahnklingon84 4 года назад

    Only 1.3k likes? This is a life saving video. Thanks!

  • @innerstrengthcheck
    @innerstrengthcheck 25 дней назад

    You are an absolute legend! I'm going to go and clean up all my podcast episodes with this! Really helpful. Subbed. :)

  • @lynnetitley7976
    @lynnetitley7976 4 года назад +1

    Love this tutorial - repeating the example a few times with different scenarios helps massively to embed the knowledge.

  • @mvrasseli1
    @mvrasseli1 9 лет назад +10

    Sometimes the noise is so quiet that we have to adjust the "analysis floor" before tweak the reduction levels.

  • @InXLsisDeo
    @InXLsisDeo 9 лет назад +4

    The Reaper standard plugins are not very sexy, but they are of high quality and can very often do the job adequately. For the 50 Hz hum, maybe you can also try to remove it with the equalizer, given we know its exact frequency, it should be possible to remove that frequency without damaging the rest of the spectrum too much.

  • @deathmarknetic
    @deathmarknetic 4 года назад

    This channel needs more subs. Thanks for this!

  • @aaronfleener8104
    @aaronfleener8104 4 года назад

    Thank you for these. I have subscribed for a while now and casual lurker, but I sincerely do appreciate these. I have learned tips and tricks I never would have thought of otherwise. Thank You.

  • @drutgat2
    @drutgat2 9 месяцев назад

    Brilliant stuff, Kenny. Many thanks.

  • @TomWilkowske
    @TomWilkowske 6 лет назад

    Kenny - geez! The best, the most thorough, expert Reaper resource out there - oft imitated, never duplicated :-)

  • @whirl-jack4467
    @whirl-jack4467 7 лет назад +1

    What an excellent video. Completely saved some piano and guitar tracks I thought would have to be re-recorded. Mucho thanks.

  • @ErickMcNerney
    @ErickMcNerney 6 лет назад +2

    7:13 it's almost more distracting with the noise reduction. Using a combination of plugins may help in those "tricky" cases.

    • @nymusicman
      @nymusicman 3 года назад

      I actually agree. The noise not being steady but going in and out was way more distracting than just a steady noise in the background. The 1st and 4th examples were good though.

  • @emrystyler4562
    @emrystyler4562 Год назад

    Thanks so much for this. I appreciate the step-by-step instructions, and the repetition in four different scenarios was also really helpful.

  • @JimSlimjimCassi
    @JimSlimjimCassi 8 лет назад +3

    Thank you, Just got Reaper few months ago, and my room i record has PC fan, AC blowing, and some times a slight hum / buzz from my Guitar tube amp.
    I do use a gate, but to keep it quite, i tend to clamp it down a bit to hard, this should do the trick.

  • @АудиоСказки-х5е
    @АудиоСказки-х5е 3 года назад

    Oh my god man you are my hero, it's so amazing, at last now I can hear the silence

  • @KoolKatRecordingStudios
    @KoolKatRecordingStudios 5 лет назад

    Hi Kenny. It's me Jimmy SantAngelo from the Reaper Facebook Group. First I Love Your Videos. You're an EXCELLENT Teacher, next Thabks for Alk Your Help ! Next I knew of the ReaFir, but only the Basic subtract option noise removal, Holy Mackerel You just gave me an Advanced Course in that. ThankYou Again. GOD Bless You

  • @leroy0053
    @leroy0053 9 лет назад +7

    omfg...i always used this plug in just to see what my peaks were doing...this is nuts.....thanks as usual for posting this...i use reaper for so many different things!!!....i got some film noir samples i wanna try and use this one to clean up a little bit...

  • @pallhe
    @pallhe 4 года назад

    Awesome. I'm a total newbie in recording. This worked a treat. Thanks so much!

  • @heyimbishu9536
    @heyimbishu9536 6 лет назад

    man you have saved me so much hassle , thank you so much

  • @Fuseek
    @Fuseek 4 года назад

    bro this technique is really usefull. now my audio is cleaner than before. thanks !

  • @sheeranmeatte
    @sheeranmeatte 5 дней назад

    I just found this and it is SUPER helpful! Thank you!

  • @spirititc
    @spirititc 9 месяцев назад

    Just what I needed! Thank you! Great tutorial! Very helpful!

  • @amidfallen
    @amidfallen 6 лет назад

    WOW! It also can be used as an alternative for noise gate for hi-gain guitars.

  • @mrberryman
    @mrberryman 6 лет назад

    Thank you so much for this! I knew it was this plug-in I needed to use, but completely forgot how to use it. Thanks again.

  • @proush01
    @proush01 3 года назад

    Thank you Kenny for this video. It worked perfectly for me! Keep doing the good work that you do!

  • @pookievanderbilt6889
    @pookievanderbilt6889 5 лет назад +2

    Is there a way to get rid of the processing sound you hear after doing this? Could you use another instance of the same plugin and get rid of that since it would be a smaller amount of frequency reduction?

  • @ViciousXUSMC
    @ViciousXUSMC 2 года назад

    I wish that I could find someone to cover every product I use as well as you cover reaper. I watch your videos even if its not something I need to know just because you make such good videos.
    I did a tutorial on this that used automation to back off the noise reduction based on the amplitude of a track, works best in those situations like this one where the noise reduction really cuts into the dialog if up too high, but if you dial it down you still hear it too much in quiet parts. So the automation lets you have max noise reduction in the quiet parts, then back off when you talk to not mess up audio, kind of like how a compressor works. II made that so long ago, I have to assume I probably learned that technique from you at some point.

  • @Ball_Hard
    @Ball_Hard 2 месяца назад +1

    i have mp3s i cant listen to that sound robotic like when you did that example...been trying to fix for years and years. is it any way that i can get the audio to sound regular again with one of those plugins? like how when you moved it up and down to make the noise sample make your voice robotic and then clear.

  • @MartinvonBargen
    @MartinvonBargen 4 года назад

    Just come back to this vid after one of my studio amps got a bit noisy (probably needs a valve change) and ReaFir and Kenny have come to the rescue again. Most people wouldn't notice the noise due to the tracks being downtuned HM-2 metal guitars, but there's a definite phasey computer noise in there. Well, there was...

  • @Asimov16
    @Asimov16 4 года назад

    That is the one thing I liked about adobe Audition. You could just select a part with the just the hum and you could auto remove all the hum and that was built into audition. I am surprised that reaper hasn't got this out of the box

  • @TEZKINO
    @TEZKINO 2 года назад

    Amazing. Helped a lot. Thanks

  • @albertrv1588
    @albertrv1588 3 года назад +1

    What happens if the voice is always affected by wind sound and voice is like whistling because the person recorded it using the Mobil phone microphone so close and that repeats all the audio track. How to remove the buzzing? Thanks in advance

  • @harwin7430
    @harwin7430 4 года назад +1

    Thanks for the video. I was struggling with my audio getting distorted with reafir and couldn't figure it out. I turned down my FFT size and that seemed to help a lot. If I turn off my fans while recording it's get unbearably hot in my room.

  • @oommdtube
    @oommdtube Год назад

    SWEEEET , I just used what you showed my to pull out most of my recording artifacts on a very spliced up bassline.
    Yes it effected the overall recording but its just rock and roll

  • @danieltv123
    @danieltv123 9 лет назад

    Better then so many plugins I tried! Used on acoustic guitar and it's amazing!

  • @rodgers48
    @rodgers48 4 года назад

    Thank you for this precious tutorial REafir is a beast

  • @citadelo5ricks
    @citadelo5ricks Год назад +1

    A lot of artifacts, but the price is right.

  • @cmd_f5
    @cmd_f5 2 года назад +1

    Hey Kenny,
    Awesome tutorial as always. I'm wondering if you can do a follow-up on Reafir using the Convolve L+R mode. I don't really understand what that mode's supposed to do. A quick example would be quite helpful.
    Thanks!

  • @crawlinginfilm9683
    @crawlinginfilm9683 4 года назад +1

    Re hum with nasty strength and breadth of harmonics - I had a recent clean-up job where I tried various advanced noise reduction approaches Including one like this) but the only good-enough result came from manually (!) creating 200 notches for each.of the harmonics up to around 2KHz. Is there any way to script-automate that in Reaper? Any hints/tips/code would be welcome.

  • @LuckyLeeCosmeJRGaming
    @LuckyLeeCosmeJRGaming 7 лет назад

    Great video man. Definitely helped me with my voice recordings and actually helped clear up my instrument recordings as well. I subbed my friend =)

  • @cismercier8009
    @cismercier8009 4 года назад

    Hi there, thanks for this video. I recorded some classical guitar over microphone and noticed the hiss too late. The method you explain identified and eliminated the noise. Excellent, very useful.

  • @Apo458
    @Apo458 3 года назад

    The most valuable thing I learned was: "It's not perfect, but it's much better"

  • @russhamer
    @russhamer 4 года назад +2

    Thx Kenny. Your tutorials are super. I got this Reafir to work once, but now when I slide the spectrum up and down nothing is happening to the noise or the vocal. I think I followed your clear steps to a tee, but the subtraction does not seem to be subtracting. I built the noise profile on a section of noise, then unchecked "Aoutomatically build...", clicked Play, then slid the spectrum up & down while holding down the Ctrl button. Nothing. Very confused. Can you suggest something?

    • @mohit6964
      @mohit6964 4 года назад +1

      Hey, try Clear Edge which is much better software than any notice cancellation software available. It works on any PC and does not required any GPU and consumes less than 5% of the CPU regardless if it is Intel or AMD. so what are you waiting for, try it now!! babblelabs.com/clear-edge/

  • @theofficialemvael6823
    @theofficialemvael6823 5 лет назад +1

    How are you moving that up and down though?

  • @werner77wda
    @werner77wda 3 года назад

    Thank you man! Your videos are awesome!!

  • @OtraRondaElPodcast
    @OtraRondaElPodcast 3 года назад

    So easy to understand and completely useful! Thanks a lot for your video!

  • @bruinsmash8836
    @bruinsmash8836 8 лет назад +1

    NICE - this helped out a shitload!

  • @ALMStudios
    @ALMStudios 4 года назад

    Thank you very much for sharing this tutorial! Simple and helpful, solved my problem in a matter of few minutes! Much appreciated!

  • @catvssnake6639
    @catvssnake6639 4 года назад

    you the best Kenny!

  • @LaVitaInSaletta
    @LaVitaInSaletta 4 года назад

    Grazie 1000 Kenny!

  • @LordSzabonight
    @LordSzabonight 5 лет назад

    So good - Thanks for all your tutorials !!

  • @jeffparker4840
    @jeffparker4840 2 года назад

    Exactly what I needed to kill a 60hz hum on a guitar solo between notes. Thanks!

  • @Agent56000
    @Agent56000 Месяц назад

    indeed a lovely tutorial. That means at the end of the day, good recording is key

  • @sizesmall1756
    @sizesmall1756 День назад

    Thank you for this !!!

  • @dante4289
    @dante4289 9 лет назад

    Thank You Kenny VERY MUCH for this priceless technique. This is great. Regards.

  • @hanzsantos
    @hanzsantos 7 лет назад

    Yo Kenny, awesome vid. May I ask though, is it better to loop a longer section of noise or a shorter one? Is there any difference?

  • @obzen6803
    @obzen6803 4 года назад

    this video is a diamond! thank you for the knowledge

  • @nickgoogle4525
    @nickgoogle4525 11 месяцев назад

    Good explanation, but I am missing a way how to move the noise profile by a specific amount and most important to reset it to the start position or to limit the movement not to get more reduction than needed.

  • @EnnTomi1
    @EnnTomi1 8 лет назад

    life saver. jsut quick question. what is your set up when recording the smaples showed in video ? did you use mixer/interface? or usb-mic?

  • @ArunodaSusiripala
    @ArunodaSusiripala 4 года назад

    Thanks for this. And Reaper for making a such a cool plugin.
    I got a mixer lately and it's adding some noise. Not anymore.

  • @raspberryfishmusic
    @raspberryfishmusic 4 года назад

    Thanks Mr Walken

  • @roffold
    @roffold 4 года назад +1

    Thank you !! This really help me.

  • @darknightmike10yearsago
    @darknightmike10yearsago 2 года назад

    I want to use this on some old Benny Goodman recordings because there is a lot of noise in them. I will use it on my guitar recordings in the future also.

  • @SegasonicfanDesigns
    @SegasonicfanDesigns Год назад

    Amazing video! Thank you so much :)

  • @GForce4
    @GForce4 2 года назад +1

    I got my sound profile but I don't know how to drag the entire line up and down. I try to drag and it only takes a small part of the line and bends it up and down

    • @guffic
      @guffic Год назад

      I have the same problem. Did you solve it?

  • @rickymarty3353
    @rickymarty3353 3 года назад

    thank you Kenny

  • @ghostroses777
    @ghostroses777 8 лет назад +1

    i know I'm late, but I'm trying to figure out how to reduce the background music with existed track and only keeping the vocals, is that possible?

  • @lexderochechouart
    @lexderochechouart 8 лет назад +2

    Life savior

  • @thegolfnut812
    @thegolfnut812 3 года назад

    I'm getting a hum when I use any amp in Reaper. When I place my hands on the strings it almost goes away. How do I make that go away?

  • @wege8409
    @wege8409 2 месяца назад

    Thanks Kenny!

  • @jaydno1
    @jaydno1 3 года назад

    It works really good, thank sir!

  • @Isaacthompson
    @Isaacthompson 3 года назад

    Nice! Thanks again!

  • @christianromedahl4456
    @christianromedahl4456 4 года назад

    Brilliant, will try it now. Thank you!

  • @F4MU5
    @F4MU5 4 года назад

    thank you. very helpful

  • @toyjesus
    @toyjesus 2 года назад

    great video, helped a lot.

  • @braksow2607
    @braksow2607 4 года назад

    Thanks - it was a really good video. My only problem is that I supose that expereriment wasn't conducted properly, cause first you mixed clean record with noice (before video) and then subtracted. I may be wrong.

  • @uriel-heavensguardian8949
    @uriel-heavensguardian8949 2 года назад

    Awesome video

  • @IrongLian
    @IrongLian 4 года назад

    thank you so much for this gold tutorial!!!

  • @AndrewPlett
    @AndrewPlett 4 года назад

    Thanks for the tutorial. Works great!

  • @krauser_
    @krauser_ 8 лет назад

    Help me please. When I record rhythm guitar in left and after in right
    channel everything sounds okay, but when I add solo as 3rd track with
    its middle positioning, sounds of rhythm guitars and solo guitar overlap
    each other and it sounds awful. In any song solo guitar and rhythm
    sound separated but not in my case, I don't know what to do with this
    stuff.

    • @hanzsantos
      @hanzsantos 7 лет назад

      Note that simply panning doesn't solve all frequency conflicts, since panning of tracks in a song is very unnoticeable when listened to in mono, if not non-existent.. I may not be that knowledgeable, but I think that there are many factors contributing to your guitar sounds overlapping and sounding muddy. It may be that your guitar settings (guitar knobs or amp knobs) are too similar for both rhythm and lead parts. Try to change your tone for rhythm and lead, so that the lead stands out more, such as changing guitars or amps, or adjusting some knobs, and that may just solve your problem of all three guitar tracks sounding horrible. Another solution may be to EQ the lead guitar (either remove or increase some frequencies) so that it stands out from the frequencies of the rhythm guitars. Hope that helps your problem, but in case you're looking for more info, I recommend checking out Graham Cochrane from "TheRecordingRevolution"; I learned a lot from his YT vids and his website articles :)

    • @krauser_
      @krauser_ 7 лет назад +1

      Thank you man. I've already solved that problem half of a year ago. The problem was I turned my effects on master track (or somehow), which affected every track. So what I had to do was to turn that off and to turn on effects separately on each track.

    • @hanzsantos
      @hanzsantos 7 лет назад

      Oh, glad you solved your problem. Keep mixing man :)

    • @krauser_
      @krauser_ 7 лет назад +1

      Hanz Santos Thank you. I will for sure

  • @erkkapehto9125
    @erkkapehto9125 3 года назад

    Thanks for the video! I tried to use this with my acoustic guitar recording but after taken it into use, the guitar recording sounded very bad. Does anyone have any tips for reducing noise without the sound quality getting worse in an acoustic guitar recording?