Editing podcasts

[Martin (Punky) Sopart]

Hello team!

I have to edit some podcasts.
What is the best and most accessible way for isolating the spoken content to
get rid of background noises.

Thank you and best wishes! / Martin

[Slau Halatyn]

HI Martin,

The tools I would look at are Izotope RX or Hush Pro. With rX, the Dialog Isolate or Music rebalance work well (although with Music Rebalance, you have to use VOCR to change the levels). Hush Pro comes as either a stand-alone version or Audio Suite (which is a bit more expensive) but it does a great job. If you have a 30-second clip of a typical file, I can process it in a few ways and share the result with you. I'm out of town for the next few days but, if you're not in a rush, I can do that over the weekend. LMK
Slau

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[Martin (Punky) Sopart]

Hello Slau!

Thanks for helping.

I already own a license of RX 10 Std. Is it worth to upgrade to 11 regarding the podcast thing or is Hush Pro the better solution here?
Checking the web Hush sounds promising.

For separating vocals, guitars etc. out of music tracks I'm using Moises Pro with very good success, but Moises doesn't work for separating background noises out of spoken content.

Best wishes! / Martin

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[Slau Halatyn]

RX 11 won't be dramatically different from version 10. Hush Pro has a trial period so you can give it a whirl. Again, you can send me an example clip and I'll happily give it a try myself.

Cheers,
Slau

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[Peter Bosher]

Hi Martin,


One other plug-in you might try is Supertone Clear.  It allows you to
isolate or balance three elements separately, voice, background noise
and ambience/reverb, so for example you can solo the voice element or
reduce or almost eliminate reverb.  Many colleagues recommended it and
I've used it recently to good effect.  I've also used RX for this so
it's horses for courses, but definitely worth a look.  There's a free
trial version which inserts noise every thirty seconds before you
register it.  It's here:

https://supertone.ai/en/clear/


Best,


Peter

[Slau Halatyn]

That's exactly how Hush Pro works but with the added benefit of an Audio Suite version. Leaving town and going dark for a few days. Cheers!

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[Martin (Punky) Sopart]

Hello Slau, Peter and all the others!

Yesterday I installed the Hush Pro trail and the results are amazing.
I don't think that RX11 will make a better job.
And the handling of Hush Splitt is that simple.

Do you further know a solution for isolating background noise out of musical content?
That does not work with Hush Pro and Moises.
I have to isolate nature background noises out of an acoustic outdoor recording.
Both Hush Pro and Moises strip out the guitar hits/slaps onto the noises track.

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[Toby Davey]

Hi Martin, 

I downloaded the trial version of Hush Pro as I was keen to give it a go too. 

How did you find working with the parameters within the plugin as I was able to adjust the values but when I VO spaced on an item to turn it on or off I did not seem to get any response from VoiceOver. 

If you had the time it would be good if you could do a bit of a demo on using Hush Pro. 

I tried using it via Audio Suite  and as a plugin too. 

It could be me though!

cheers, 

Toby

[Martin (Punky) Sopart]

Hello Toby!

After installing the Hush Pro plug-in you also have to start your 21 day trial.

Open the plug-in via the audio suite menu.
Then use VOCR to read the plug-in's window.
You'll find a button to start the trial.
Mouse click that button.
Then close the Plug-in window.

Now back in the session create 3 audio tracks below that one you want to process and select all 4 tracks.
*Make sure that the 3 additional audio tracks have the same number of channels the source track has.

After that select an audio clip in the source track or the whole track.

Open the plug-in "Hush Splitt" via the audio suite menu and press the render button.

After the processing you can close the plug-in window and the 3 additional audio tracks will contain the splitts for Voice, reverb and noise.

Does that work for you?

Best wishes!/ Martin

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[Toby Davey]

Hi Martin, 

thanks for the reply and info.  I did not realise that there was a button that I needed to press to start the trial. 

I am away for the weekend but will have a go when I am back. 

Sounds like a great way to isolate and remove background noise and I like the idea you get 3 separate tracks too. 

Cheers, 

Toby  

[Herman Fermin]

I am happy to make a video but not sure how that will help since the last one didn't and the behavior has remained the same. The fact is that I could tab around in the UI in Nectar 3 but cannot in Nectar 4. Whats worse is that once I am in the UI for Nectar 4, I can't get out or close or go back to the DAW. It would be better if you have some time at some point, let's get on a Zoom call so I can demonstrate. Last time I checked, I could reproduce this 100-percent of the time with multiple screen readers. If its system specific and it certainly may be, it would be good to have someone with more knowledge than me for this plug-in.

Herman

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[Herman Fermin]

Sorry all, this wasn't meant for this list.

Herman

[Slau Halatyn]

Unfortunately, that's a tricky proposition. RX can definitely do that but you have to use the Spectral Editor with its highly graphic display. There used to be a way, many years ago, to split selected audio into individual elements automatically but I believe they did away with that functionality. Perhaps it's still possible in the stand-alone version but I don't use RX that way so I wouldn't necessarily know.

Slau

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[Toby Davey]

Hi Martin, 

OK, I managed to start the trial all fine but having a bit of an issue when using Hush Pro Split to split the voice, reverb and noise into the 3 extra tracks.

I have my source track selected plus 3 extra tracks below it, all are the same just mono tracks.  When I press render Pro Tools starts the process and when it has finished the audio is not split onto the 3 extra tracks. 

Also when using Hush Pro Mix after selecting audio on a track I can preview the processing, alter some of the parameters and hear the affect while in preview mode.  Again when I press render the audio is still the same. 

I do have all the usual settings in audio Suite selected to use processed audio in playlist, create continuous file, etc like I do for all other Audio Suite processing.

Am I doing something wrong here or could it be that the trial version does not allow you to write the processing to the track. 

When I was listening to Hush Pro Mix on a very noisy location interview recording in central London it just sounded fantastic and I could get rid of all the background noise. 

any thoughts or suggestions greatly appreciated.

Best,

Toby

[Martin (Punky) Sopart]

Hello Toby!

I'm still working with the trial and having no problems.

Is there maybe another dialog in the plug-in window that has to be confirmed by using VOCR?
And have you selected some audio in the source track?

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[Toby Davey]

Hi Martin, 

Thanks for the reply.  I reached out to Jamie (I think that is his name) from Hush Pro and have sent him the specs of my Mac and the version of Pro Tools I am on. 

I don't think there is anything else that needs clicking on as he said the trial version should work just like the paid version so nothing turned off for the trial or that sort of thing. 

He has asked me to send him a screen shot but as I don't have a monitor connected to my Mac Studio I can't do that at the moment.

Hoping I can arrange to do a TeamView session with him so that he can see what's going on. 

Cheers, 

Toby 

[Slau Halatyn]

Just a quick suggestion: Why not just use the Mix version rather than the split version? It's simple—set the parameters, audition if you want but, render and it's done. Do you specifically need to split and keep the noise and/or ambience?

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[Toby Davey]

Hi Slau, 

The strange thing is that when I try using Hush Mix and preview the processing I can hear the noise being removed but when I press render the processing does not get written to the track.  

Also one thing that Jamie from Hush Pro noticed when I did a demo for him was that when VO was interacting with the noise parameter the value was 0.0 and that was the lowest level that I could get to with VO but Jamie said that the figures should go in to minus figures.

Also he said that in Hush Split there are no parameters to interact with although Voice Over was able to interact with them.  

So all a bit strange to me.

Just in case you are interested here are the details of my Mac and the version of Pro Tools I am using.

Mac Studio 2023, Apple M2 Max,

Memory 32GB,

Mac OS Sequoia 15.5,

Pro Tools 2025.6.0

 

Any thoughts Slau at all and are you able to use both Hush Mix and Hush Split all OK?

cheers, 

Toby 

  

[Slau Halatyn]

Hi Toby,

I don't use the Split version as I have no need to retain elements aside from voice when it comes to dialogue processing. regarding the negative numbers, I suspect that this is a matter of VoiceOver reading in one way when what's displayed is something different. a good example is the level meter in Pro Tools. No matter the setting of the level meter to a sighted person, VoiceOver will always read the value in full-scale value. when you look at the default number in a given parameter in Hush, the initial value is 50. what I think might be happening is that the value of "50" actually corresponds to essentially what is a nominal gain or, in other words, neither boosting nor cutting. At least, to me, this seems to make some kind of logical sense.

The issue of not rendering properly is something that I've seen before with other Audiosuite plugins. Unfortunately, apart from checking settings in that window, there's nothing else that I can think of that might help.

slau

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[Toby Davey]

Hi Slau, 

thanks for your reply and I sort of thought that Voice Over might be reading something slightly different to what might be on the screen. 

I am hoping that I might be able to do a TeamsView session with Jamie from Hush Pro to see if there are any settings that need changing. 

I have uninstalled Hush Pro and downloaded it again which did not seem to resolve the issue so I might try and do that again and make sure I have removed everything relating to Hush Pro. 

Just a bit frustrating when you are not sure what is going wrong. 

Hush Pro is a great plugin and if I could get the Hush Split to work as well that would be good to be able to fade the background noise up and down for certain situations. 

Cheers, 

Toby 

[Toby Davey]

Hi Slau and Martin, 

I have now worked out what was going wrong and now everything seems to be working as it should and what an amazing plugin Hush Pro is too. 

Some how I think when I first open up Hush Pro and had not used VOCR to get to the trial button I must have unselected 'used processed output in playlist', although Voice Over was reading it out I had not noticed that it had been unselected.

A bit of a schoolboy error there on my behalf.

Of course I have let Jamie from Hush Pro know. 

Cheers, 

Toby