Noise Gates vs Noise Reduction - Which is Better?
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- čas přidán 23. 07. 2024
- Noisy recordings can be very frustrating and often I see people reaching for a 'noise gate' plugin to fix this problem. Unfortunately, this doesn't often give the results you want.
In this video, I hope to clear up some confusion about noise gates and noise reduction. It seems many people think that noise gates reduce the noise in recordings but this simply isn't the case. Learn how to reduce and remove noise to improve your recordings with this simple technique :)
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The software I am using in this video is called Izotope RX 7, however this is purely to show the waveforms and background noise.
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I am not lying but I was suffering with noise when I recorded audio today for the first time and this man just made a tutorial at the perfect time. I cannot tell how thankful I am 🙏🙏
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same here bro
i was trying to download a free noise gate
then this heavenly sent tutorial came up .....
Man, you are truly a king taking care of his people. I can't thank you enough for all of your work in these CZcams channel. Keep it up. Again, I'm truly truly truly grateful. Thanks
Wow, an audio guy who actually mikes himself properly and then treats his own voice well before pressing publish. Brilliant - I've just come from two or three REALLY noisy tutorials about how to reduce noise. The explanation of noise gates is incredibly useful. Great for live, not much use in the studio. Thank you Michael.
Uh-oh, clipping an distortion around 4:40.
Extremely helpful and clear, Michael. Thank you for all of the insights you share on this channel!
yeeeeeeesssss, the thing I'm looking for the most, I've recently tried recording vocals and as i listen to it, im really hearing some sort of white noise and this just clarifies everything, thanks for this video, really appreciate it
Your tutorials really are some of the best. Thanks so much! This really helps.
Every time I watch ur videos Michael, I'm lost, untill that "aha!" moment apears. Thanks for yet another super helpful video, i really appreciate your help! - I would love to see you doing a beat some time. Would be awesome with a "In The Mix, producing a beat" video. Wish you the best, stay at it buddy! 🙏😁
Thank you. That "aha" moment is why I do this! Do let me know if you think anything could be improved or made more clear :)
I've also used noise gates occasionally for if I have a sample that's really transient heavy like a drum loop, but either has too much reverb or the wrong kind of reverb baked into the sample. I'll set the threshold just above the reverb tail and give it a pretty gentle release, usually works pretty well at removing or at least shortening reverb.
Your videos are so simple and easy to understand love it.
Great explanation of noise gate vs noise reduction. Obviously, you're focusing on music production, where noise gating is used to eliminate mic bleed and feedback. However, the gate is also extremely useful for voice over and podcast when there are long pauses between dialogue, breaths, and other noises. For example, audio books require room tone ceiling at -62 db, which is pretty much dead silence (unless you've got your earphones/buds fully cranked up). Good time for the noise gate to cut out everything until it hears your desired RMS, which you've determined in Audition or another DAW.
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Waay too much dynamics on those eyebrows. He needs some heavy compression on those buggers...
I think he's still a bit awkward talking alone to a camera.
Which is why the rest of his face looks so static while his eyebrows are to honest not to move.
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Honestly I have no control over them when I talk! I usually talk a lot with my hands and eyebrows, I've been told.
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I love your tutorials, thank you so much! I would love it, if you would make tutorial about how you can hear and solve the problem of sounds clashing with eachother.
RX is a godsend for wintertime when you have to keep working despite having the heat run in the studio.
Very nicely and concisely explained! Thank you!
I use to apply noise gates whenever I used to record vocals 😂 thanks Mike for clearing this out!
Outstanding tutorial!!!!
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Only question is would it be prudent and beneficial to apply the noise reduction AND noise gate in order to produce a pretty almost FLAWLESS recording??
This made so much sense. I thought I was using my noise gate wrong when really I just need a denoise plugin
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I learned noise reduction first. I just tried using noise gate (saw it in another video) and couldn't understand why there was so much static and noise doing my voice. Thanks for this explanation!
Simple and precise. Thanks
Crystal clear! TYVM, Michael.
Great video bro,love it. Great help.Honestly.
Thank you so much for this video, really great explanation!!
Very well explained! Perhaps you could compare different noise reduction software in another video?
excellent explanations. thanks. i am so glad you clarified when to use noise gate: i mostly record my instruments in the large empty room i have as my studio (which is NOY soundproofed, and is on a street with quite a bit of traffic: in Indian cities, that is the case pretty much as EVERYwhere!), and i was wondering why i was hearing myself so loud in the room (on a tin whistle at 1:00 am!) but the recording was so low! the imac’s mic and my lavalier mics were giving completely different results. i think it was because of my use of Noise Gate with a high threshold: mistaking precisely what you pointed out: it listens, and cuts off everything below a Level, and Boosts everything ELSE, regardless of the frequencies! since i was playing very low decibel, and low pitched notes on a BFlat TinWhistle (which by itself is very ‘airy’ literally AND figuratively), and long extended notes to get Clarity in microtones between BFlat and C! i finally see how the same pitch when i sing, is so differently recorded by the mics, and treated by ‘noise’ reduction/gate software. i guess there is no substitute to getting the recording at the BEST volume possible in the room, at which there is the least room resonance (which as a Baritone i use a lot in live performances). thanks a ton. it would really help if you could have some cations/labels. especially when you are pointing out subtleties like below 50 and 50-100. unfortunately for me, most of my voice falls in that category upto about 1600. with sinuses and humidity, this range is so difficult to record with any level of fidelity…
i can help you with captions, labels, markups etc. so that it is easy to follow you (in that small square, with your hands cut off!) and figuring out your accent!, AND looking at tiny golden yellow speckles of dust appear and disappear magically in the ‘nosiy’ color range. as a Visual Designer and Calligrapher, your audio explanations are EASIER to understand, and apply, when i Add COLOR to tour aural explanations. i think this might help a lot of people who find working with tiny buttons and switches on their DAW, when they should really do this in analog at Recording and PreProduction time. i found that using a pair of Lavaliers, AND a Shotgun simultaneously, with a bluetooth/wired headphones attached mic, gives such clear recordings at such low volumes (like softly exhaling through a Fipple flute or Recorder. or even a Chanter of the BagPipes… and certainly my diatonic Blues harps!
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Very good explained. Thanks 💚
So much informational. Love your videos and following your tips for r while now.
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Great !!! I had this doubt exactly today, trying to use noise gato for reduce hiss ... your videos are great !!! (Fred, from Brazil)
Ok, now i'm gonna have to get RX7. Aaaaaand subscribed
I like using this vintage reverb and delay, but when nothing is playing there is noise. It's practically infinitely silent, but if you normalize audio that is quiet it can pick up or if you use a spectrum visualizer it shows up. I use a noise gate at the end of those chains, but even after it's still there. Is there a noise gate out there that will mute audio completely not just turn it down a lot?
incredibly helpful, thank you!
Excellent job. Thanks brotha
WOW this is really nice. Learnt a lot from this
Thanks again for the info Michael.
Man you're helping me alot, thank you. 🖤
I use de-noise feature in Audacity to reduce background noise in dialog here in Saigon .. I never tried a noise gate before and was curious about their function. Thanks for the information, am sure it applies to dialog as well as music. Cheers.
Cheers Michael - Very helpful.
short informative and a useful video!
Broooo your vids are perfect I got a way better Idea of what I need to be doing now
Keep them Coming!!
Literally JUST thinking about this as I was about to record. Amazing lol
Luckily your guitar work far outshines the noise!
Good explaining, thanks a lot.
Your videos are just great.
Excellent video, thank you so much!
Hi Michael, thank u for everything you do, do you have a video for voice over mixing?
Hey Michael, really important question, do you perhaps know if there's a way we can do a volume compensation for compressors in fl studio without having to do it manually ourselves by ear? I saw a video where it's built in with Abelton but couldn't find anything like it for FL on youtube
thank you so much for sharing all this knowledge! Which noise reduction plugin would you recommend? thank you so much I am looking for one rn!
You made this video just at the right moment. I just bought a sound card today so that I can use an electret condenser mic I made few years ago. It sounds pretty good but there's a little bit too much noise.
Nice! Glad I could help :)
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Wow great vid!
Awesome !!!! I learn alot .
great video bro well said
You noise gated yourself at 5:52 XD
Really helpful video though, never thought noise gate would be useful for live shows :D
Yay a new video!!!!!!
Coooool vid! Thanks for the education!
Hello, i watched your tutorials and i was wondering if you plan on doing some sort of Horror creepy animal effects
You sir, are an audio god!
Love your videos
I really love you man 😢💜
great tutorial, I really want to try your method, but I'm not Using FL Studio, I believe the Edison Plugin only works on FL.
can you make noise reduction tutorial using RX izotope or other universal plugin? thank u
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Hey micheal how could i use distortion on my bass while its sidechained with the Kick without the uneeded fuzzy sound ? Also without it clipping ? Also with using buses
Hi Mike.. do you use a denoiser feature on FL studio or just 3rd party? if you do ..which is better? thanks for the awesome videos. cheers mate.
Very helpful.
nice! quik and clear)
Thank you for this
Very interesting things🤔🤔 ,thank you 🤗🤗
Is there a way to do in Ableton live what you did in fl studio? With the noise profile tool to remove noise, like in the other video? Or have I missed something obvious 😳 newbie here. Also love your tutorials thanks for making them!
Hello, do you utilize the denoiser’s envelope? Or mostly just stick with the flat line?
Thanks man!
Thank you so much! 🌹🌹
Appreciate your vids...been mixing for 40 years but everyday is an opportunity to learn...which leads to my question...when using eg RX for removal...have you ever done a phase check? Ie like when everyone uses hp filtering and it clouds the upper harmonic phasing but no one talks about it?
Might be helpful, especially for newbs to show a little history of gates eg on a console etc and how even basic tools like a gate did wonders on even eg 70s records when they first really hit the ground in a big way
Simple terms, like it, some videos just make my mind go like mush lol, thanks
You always bring useful content. Why don't you get into production companies
Hey Michael, awesome videos you post, I've learnt sooooo much from your channel, been here since 100k subs. I've wanted to know, if I have a channel where I remake instrumentals from a song and title it with the song name, will it be flagged by CZcams?
Hey Michael,
I live in an apartment. I don't have a separate room for me. So I have some room noise. I recorded a vocal and tried some mixing but the noise was still there . Would it be advisable to use a dynamic mic instead of a condenser mic?
Hello, In the Mix!
thank you so much
VEry clear. thanks
you should make an online course, like PML. Thing is I didn't buy theirs becuase it was too simple and more for begginers. I think your audience is more intermediate, and your videos have helped me far more. I'd pay for that intermediate course!
What do you think about universal Audio API Channel strip gate can I use it for tracking and still get good in your face emotion in my vocals ?
How can i do it in logic pro 9?I tried but i failed especially on vocals.I love your videos
Thank you for this info (:
Great, simple video. Toward the end there you seem to indicate that the noise will exist during the recording process, regardless. So, you're saying that noise reduction is something to be processed after recording, or can it be done during the recording process?
More, great video
you are really underrated
Would you say the juice isn’t worth the squeeze using a gate to reduce breath sounds? For my podcast, I’ve been applying the default Audacity noise reduction prior to importing to Fairlight for edits and adjustments. Solo podcast SM58 to Zoom Podtrak P4
You can de-noise pretty easily in audacity. Not sure if there's a way to do it in Edison or not. I usually just drag the audio into audacity, do it there then bring it back to FL.
So very nice
How do I choose Noise Gate threshold and level reduction numbers if I am not trying to get rid of any noise necessarily but to set volume levels more even and make my compression and limiter effect apply easier. I am hearing noise gate makes those two much more better.
will there be any production breakdowns (like the ones for miavono) or production tutorials ?
i still love these types of videos of course
does using somthing like a NS1 or Accusonus on a vocal track ruin the vocal? is it similir to your way??
so is there an easier or faster way to do the noise reduction method. i have a lot of tracks id have to do this to each one 1 by 1?
Most people have a really noisy room. Especially streamers either don't bother doing exstensive sound treatments on their room, or they simply can't do that, because they don't have a spare room to use for it. The same is true for most podcasters. This is the first issue you have to think about if talking about why people prefer noise gates nowadays.
The second one is sound compression. Before i can come to what i mean, take my use case as an example. I am a hobbyist streamer, streaming from my home office. Two of the walls are covered with DVD / Blu-Ray Shelves, full of them. We have two tower PCs running in here, not even especially loud ones, but definitely audible on the microphone. With my dynamic big diaphragm microphone with a cardioid pickup pattern and the noise sources in the dead zones of the pattern, at a talking distance of ~2 inches (~5 cm) i can manage one of the following: Either, i set the gain on the interface, so my voice at normal speaking is at -10dB. Or i set the gain to have a normal speaking level of -18dB and turn it up in post to have -10dB once more, but with a bigger headroom for my voice. What ever choise I make, i end up with a noise floor of -60dB.
Sadly, this is pretty much an ideal case. Most people don't want to start using their microphones correctly - that is: They want the microphone as far away as they can dare. But going for my use case as an example: Only going for 10 cm (or 4 inches) distance for the microphone, I get a noise floor of -50 dB with traffic noise from the outside going up to -46 dB. If i go for a distance of 20 cm to the microphone, the noise floor is elevated to a horrible -40dB And by experience of trying to help other streamers with their microphone sound, i know, this is a realistic use case. (not for me, but for enough other streamers)
If I try to reduce noise that high, any free noise reduction VST plugin will brutally murder my voice. Which is to be expected, the way noise reduction works. And knowing the issues i have running noise reduction plugins in general inside of OBS or the Equalizer APO, I know, it is far from guaranteed, professionally usable plugins would even work in there. Also, they tend to add a significant ammount of delay to the sound, which is a major pain, if you want to monitor all of your streams sounds at the same time. You will probably end up getting stalled by the combined delay of all audio buffers in place, even if you find a noise reduction plugin, that gives you decent results under the circumstances explained.
So why do you actually hear claims about noise gates being the better solution everywhere? Because most people end up using gates, as noise reduction software just doesn't give you acceptable results, quality-wise, unless you pay for something decent, and because of the software those plugins would be expected wo work with.
Familiar with serato sampler? How do i get fl to record notes and add midi to channel rack??
Noise gates are also an exceptional creative tool, both as a "radnomiser" or to puropsefully create a sucking effect in the groove
Hi, I'm radioham listening to noisy signals coming in, can I use a rowing noise gate inline with my external speaker to cut out the noise on my radio.
Bro this is PERFECT!! I've recently been uploading clips using noise gates instead of reduction. I'll be sure to use noise reduction from now on!!
Thank you😍
Hi how to select right Plugins Or vst for producing music
Please make a tutorial on IZOTOPE RX noise removal - thanks
You look like twilight omg thankyou, great tutorial 🤙