
To tweak the reduction so it doesn't remove audio that you want to keep, move the Reduce by: slider to the left, as shown in Figure 21 (below), until you no longer hear dialogue. Any time you hear significant amounts of the actual speech, you're removing significant portions of that speech. Sumie's discussion-audio that we don't want to move-which tells us that we're reducing the sound too much. For details about each automation mode, see Track automation options. Choose the automation mode from the menu at the bottom of the track controls in the Editor panel, or above the fader in the Mixer. At the 7:36 mark in the clip above, you can hear a little bit of Dr. Audition CS6 supports the full range of automation modesread, write, latch, and touchfor all track level, pan, and effect parameters. When you select the Output Noise Only checkbox, Audition plays only the noise that you've told it to remove. When you toggle it back on, you should hear it goneĪnother tool I like to use is Output Noise Only (you'll find it in the lower-left section of the dialog, as shown in Figure 20). It's pretty faint here because of the screencam capture and encoding, but in your own projects, when you capture a noise print for noise reduction and open the Noise Reduction dialog, and then click this button, you should be able to hear-with the effect toggled off-the noise that you're attempting to reduce.

At the 6:48 mark, you can hear the audio from this clip with the noise reduction effect toggled on and off. I've reposted this article's companion video clip below for reference.


The Effect - Noise Reduction dialog with the power state button (which toggles the effect on and off) highlighted
