Dutch festival in Amsterdam

[Paneurope44+]

Was at a great festival in Amsterdam for four days this week. Lots of people under the influence back to their tent to make out.
Tents were very close together. I had to USB's with me, but not everything came out as clear as I could hear it myself.
Anyway; This specific file has a lot of background noise, I don't know how to reduce in VLC-player. I therefor post the original file instead of a MP3.
Would be great if someone could polish it up.

There were only people around us in the age of 20-35, don't know exactly which couple this was. Still have 18hrs of footage to go through, hope it's worth it .

[DOLLAR]

Nice recording, got really hot there. If you need some help to look through the footage, then you can also post it here, I will help out.

[Paneurope44+]

I’m mostly looking for someone to clean the audio.

[mlee80]

As mp3.
I mute the load rustling at start and end
Applied a filter to knock out low frequency rumble
then a series of notch filters to reduce a (fan?) noise.
Normalized to -6db.

The audacity macro for notch, there were higher harmonics but relatively low level:
NotchFilter:frequency="286" q="40"
NotchFilter:frequency="378" q="40"
NotchFilter:frequency="476" q="40"
NotchFilter:frequency="569" q="40"
NotchFilter:frequency="664" q="40"
NotchFilter:frequency="749" q="40"
NotchFilter:frequency="884" q="40"

Very good capture, can tell they were aware of closeness of others so nothing theatrical but intense nonetheless

[Paneurope44+]

Thank you very much.

[AshenElm]

Still have 18hrs of footage to go through, hope it's worth it .

Hey, if you'd like to post it as a group effort, I'll take some time to scan through it. I kind of love doing that, if I have the time to myself. I just got back from a camping festival that I wish I had left my recorder running all night on, I would have had better results.

[emmpet8]

Thanks a lot for sharing this with us all. This section does not get many contributions, so it's very much appreciated.

Here's a version I did for myself in Audition. I removed the low and high end noise, also the start and finish sounds of the recorder being placed and removed. I then simply used DeNoise at the default setting with an added gain of 12db.

[mlee80]

Interesting, a simpler path than I used with similar results, if anything yours is better.

I tend to avoid noise reduction where possible due to artifacts, some subtle, some not, did not notice any in your version.

I may try a few things with audacity NR to see if it can approach your DeNoise results for this file.

[reggind]

I am looking forward to this, I agree, I tend to use NR as a last resort as the artifacts drive me bat shit crazy.

Thanks to the OP for the cap and the other folks for playing with it.

[emmpet8]

Interesting, a simpler path than I used with similar results, if anything yours is better.

I tend to avoid noise reduction where possible due to artifacts, some subtle, some not, did not notice any in your version.

I may try a few things with audacity NR to see if it can approach your DeNoise results for this file.

Thanks a lot for the interesting comments.

Before DeNoise came out, all the noise reduction options in Audition produced artefacts to some degree. As I understand it, Adobe paid a lot of money for the algorithm that DeNoise uses and it works really well. On top of that, it's so quick and easy to use. It took about 15 seconds in total to N.R. the clip I posted here. That included adding the gain of 12db at the same time in Denoise.

[wueste]

Thank you, great. Why is it so quiet? Don't you have music at festivals all the time?

[Paneurope44+]

Thank you, great. Why is it so quiet? Don't you have music at festivals all the time?

I don’t know what time it was. Could be early morning. Was coming down myself from mushrooms myself, sinai was already proud that I managed to start a recording at all.

[Serraset]

nice, thanks for share