Adobe Audition: Apply Noise Reduction (Process)

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Master Editor·Jun 2024

Demo summary

The user demonstrates capturing a noise print and adjusting the reduction and aggressiveness sliders to remove background hiss.

Step-by-step

Go to the Effects menu
Select Noise Reduction / Restoration
Click on Noise Reduction (Process)
Select a noise-only portion of the audio clip
Click Capture Noise Print
Adjust the Noise Reduction slider to set the aggressiveness
Adjust the Reduce By slider to specify the amount of noise to remove
Click the Apply button

Watch out for

You must capture a noise-only part of the audio before processing
Setting sliders too high can cause the audio quality to degrade

Tips

Select the noise-only part from the beginning of the clip
Adjust settings while the audio is playing to hear changes in real-time
Try to find an optimal value rather than maxing out the sliders to avoid audio degradation

Highlights

“adob audition is a quite powerful software if you are looking for a paid software or if you're looking for a good software which can do very good work with voiceover recording and editing”

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