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Noise Removal and Repair

MuseFX Noise Gate

A noise gate. Part of the Muse FX pack.

Details

See the pack for installation instructions.

A noise gate keeps noise in quiet parts out while not affecting the audio you want at all.

MuseFX De-Ess

An easy to use de-esser. Part of the Muse FX pack.

Details

See the pack for installation instructions.

Has presets for female and male voices, harshness, sibilance, steel guitar and strings rosin.

ReaFIR

A multi-purpose dynamics processor, can be used for EQ, compressor, gate and noise reduction purposes. Part of ReaPlugs.

Hint: ReaFIR in Subtract mode can be used to remove noise.

Details

Copyright (C) 2006-2016, Cockos Incorporated VST PlugIn Technology by Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH

Information from the vendor:

  • FFT based dynamics processor

  • Supports FFT sizes of 128-32768

  • Useful in/out frequency response display

  • Supports defining response curves both using any number of points, or freehand mouse

  • EQ - can be used as a linear phase mastering EQ, or as a super-effective surgical EQ

  • Compressor - can compress at a fixed ratio with a per-band threshold

  • Gate - can gate with per-band threshold

  • Subtract - can build noise profiles and subtract noise from the signal

ReaGate

A noise gate effect, part of ReaPlugs.

Details

Copyright (C) 2006-2016, Cockos Incorporated VST PlugIn Technology by Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH

Information From the vendor:

  • Ultra-configurable gate

  • Sidechain filters, sidechain input

  • Lookahead for pre-open

  • Hold control

  • Hysteresis control

  • Variable RMS size

  • Can send MIDI events on gate open/close

  • Wet/dry mix, noise mix (can add noise when gate is open)

RNNoise suppression for voice

Removes most sounds that aren't speech.

This plugin only works with a 48000Hz sample rate. You can change the project sample rate in Audio Setup -> Audio Settings.

NVIDIA Broadcast

A virtual device that sits between your microphone and Audacity and other programs which allows you to use an AI denoiser.

Caution: NVIDIA Broadcast only works on Windows machines with a NVIDIA RTX GPU.

Further, it only works on spoken word content; musical content is treated as noise and filtered out.

Details

Copyright © 2022 NVIDIA Corporation

Requires NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060, Quadro RTX 3000, TITAN RTX or higher

Full setup guide: https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/geforce/guides/broadcast-app-setup-guide/

Technically, NVIDIA Broadcast isn't a plugin but a virtual device. You will find it in Audacity's audio settings as an input. It does not show up in the Plugin Manager.

See also

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