Remove hum from sound file?

furnace · 23 May 2008 at 09:53

What's the best program to remove a hum from a sound file? It needs to be free. I have tried Audacity which seems OK using the "Noise Removal" effect, but it's not great...

Are there any other suggestions, or any tips & tricks, for doing this?

dave-lew99 · 23 May 2008 at 11:52

use Audacity and use EQ to remove noise below 50Hz (i'm gussing it's 50Hz mains hum), obviously you are going to lose all of the bottom end off the audio, but there's little that you can do unless you can re-record it from source without the hum.

furnace · 23 May 2008 at 13:08

Unfortunately not

I've got the CD's that need fixing now and I thought it'd be a low hum but it's actually a high pitch hum, maybe from a laptop hard drive or fan. Audacity seems to get rid of it well enough, albeit with somel loss

Thanks

OzZie · 23 May 2008 at 15:37

You wanna email the tracks that need doing, and i'll see what i can do?

chiggz · 23 May 2008 at 18:15

i use www.goldwave.com for my music editing..

it's got a pretty decent tool to reduce the hum and has been very effective when i've needed it

asim18 · 23 May 2008 at 18:18

You can send me a track, i'll see what i can do.

It's worth me giving it a go, tbh, you got nothin to lose.

EDIT: just read post number 3