Skol303 Posted December 10, 2012 Share Posted December 10, 2012 (edited) Hi folks, I'm being lazy here and could probably solve this thru Googling... but I very much trust the opinions on BC and wanted to check if anyone has any immediate recommendations. Firstly, a quick bit of context to explain what I'm looking for: A colleague at work has recorded a bunch of vox-pop interviews at an event using a bog-standard digital camcorder. The audio has been recorded using the built-in mic so it's not the best quality and includes a load of background noise. The recordings don't need to be broadcast quality - we just need to clean up the audio a little, if possible. I'd normally do this myself at home but I don't have time at the moment. We have Garage Band installed on the Macs in the office so I want to brief my colleague on how to clean up the audio himself using that as a DAW. Being a Reason user I have no idea of what VST plug-ins are best for this! Hence, if you can recommend any suitable EQs then please do: it needs to be freeware (or very cheap) and ideally include low/high pass filters and a decent bell filter with adjustable Q, so we can notch out some of the cr@p in the recordings. Many thanks! Edited December 10, 2012 by Skol303 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dood Posted December 10, 2012 Share Posted December 10, 2012 Install the DAW called Reaper. Its free to download and features a whole host of really good plug ins including EQ. The program is available for download in full and is not limited, however after 30days you'll get a 5 second nag when you open it, but still no limits to operation. It's brilliant - one of the best DAWS for features. I bought the full license within a couple of days I was so impressed and have been using it as my main tracking DAW, though I also use Logic Pro and most of the other DAWs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skol303 Posted December 10, 2012 Author Share Posted December 10, 2012 Thanks Dood! Yeah, I have a copy of Reaper at home - great piece of software and exceptionally well priced. The reason I'm keen to use Garage Band is because we already have a licensed copy at work, so although Reaper is very cheap it still saves 60 bucks or whatever if we can find a VST to run in Garage Band. We could of course use Reaper under the trial license but I don't think that covers commercial work. The budget for this project is tiny, which is why I'm being so tight-fisted and not wanting to spend a penny more than we need to! Anyway, cheers for the repy mate - appreciated Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockfordStone Posted December 10, 2012 Share Posted December 10, 2012 if you can wait till this evening i can send you one? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowdown Posted December 10, 2012 Share Posted December 10, 2012 (edited) I posted this in the free VST section a couple of weeks ago. MeldaProductions. Everything you need for clean up Audio, and of course some standard plugs. - and they are very good. Well worth checking out. [url="http://www.meldaproduction.com/freevstplugins/"]http://www.meldaprod...freevstplugins/[/url] Garry Edited December 10, 2012 by lowdown Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skol303 Posted December 10, 2012 Author Share Posted December 10, 2012 ^ Rob, you are a gent! Cheers mate I'll PM you my email address... no mad rush on this - anytime this week would be grand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skol303 Posted December 10, 2012 Author Share Posted December 10, 2012 [quote name='lowdown' timestamp='1355150274' post='1894628'] I posted this in the free VST section a couple of weeks ago. MeldaProductions. Everything you need for clean up Audio - and they are very good. [url="http://www.meldaproduction.com/freevstplugins/"]http://www.meldaprod...freevstplugins/[/url] Garry[/quote] ^ Thanks also Garry, this looks good. Much appreciated! (I should have checked the free VSTs thread... my bad). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
51m0n Posted December 10, 2012 Share Posted December 10, 2012 (edited) Hmmm, for noise reduction you really would do better to install Reaper and use ReaFIR which in subtraction mode you can get to 'learn' the noise pattern you want to remove. A far better option than using a simple EQ IME. In fact I think you can just download the Reaper FX... http://www.reaper.fm/reaplugs/ Edited December 10, 2012 by 51m0n Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skol303 Posted December 10, 2012 Author Share Posted December 10, 2012 ^ Nice one Si, I never knew that the Reaper FX were available for free as standalones. Can't beat the generosity of Cockos! What a damn good company I normally use the noise removal tool in Audacity for this - works ok for standard background hiss/rumble, but not great for more 'busy' noises. Anyway, I'm going to sit down with the VSTs suggested by yourself, Rob and Garry and work through them. Looking forward to playing with some VSTs on work time for a change! We might end up buying a Reaper license anyway if we get more of this sort of work, as I'm more familiar with it than I am Garage Band. Fingers crossed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
51m0n Posted December 10, 2012 Share Posted December 10, 2012 Cockos do absolutely rock - finest mindset of any DAW software engineers I've heard about to be honest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dood Posted December 10, 2012 Share Posted December 10, 2012 Cool, I didn't realise the plug-ins were available separately either! NICE - Happy to help! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mornats Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 Yeah, Reaper's EQ is really good. I've used this one too and really liked it. Gets good reviews and ofc is free: http://www.voxengo.com/product/overtonegeq/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowdown Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 And there is this one - only X32 bit, but works just fine when bridged into X64 bit. http://audiovivo.com/site/page/downloads/ Garry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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