Improving Sound in Church Podcast

[Matthewlawson3]

Hi I started a podcast for my church about a year ago and have been using Adobe Audition to do the sound clean up. My set up is as simple as you can get. I convert the church's tapes into digital using line in cord connected to a tape player and that's it. Usually there is lots of tape noise and so I have found for some reason running the podcast through the FFT Filter called Underwater-Shallow removes quite a bit of tape noise. Then I will always capture a noise profile of the tape noise before the actual recording begins because there is a few seconds of tape sound before the recording begins. Finally, I have a noise profile I created called church noise which removes a annoying hum in all of the sermons. Lately though I have still been getting some small noise in the background after running my stuff through these steps. I would like any help I can get on how can I remove this sound internally in Audition and clean it up even more. I'm not a expert in Audition so I need a step by step process. I will include the link to my latest podcast.

http://www.archive.org/download/RobChambersTheApplicationtoHeaven/Untitled2.mp3


Also, I am including a sample of that sound I am talking about from a podcast that's already been put through this process but has not been posted yet. But you can hear the noise well in the above podcast.

http://www.archive.org/download/SoundSoundNoise/SoundNoise2.mp3

I give permission for you take this podcast and download it and try to fix the problem and re-upload it somewhere for me to hear. Just leave the link and leave me the steps you did. Thanks so very much and God Bless.

[tabulator32]

Although a commendable effort, it sounds like you are going through a great deal of trouble to convert and wash the audio.

My recommendation would be to get an inexpensive digital audio recorder (less than $100) and a perhaps even a small, cheap mixing board with a bit of gain control ($50) and, after that, its all about microphone quality and placement.

Just my two cents worth.

Good luck!