This video demonstrates how to use Audition to remove one repetitive sound (a telephone ringing in the background)
Video Transcription
Hi, this is Margaret with Noble Desktop. Today, we're going to take a quick look at removing a sound in Adobe Audition. This lesson gets rooted very deep. Premiere Pro has excellent audio repair, but it has its limitations. For those limitations, we have Audition, which is part of the Creative Cloud.
I have this clip in my browser, so I'm going to control + click on it and select "Edit in Adobe Audition". This will open up Audition. If you have downloaded it, you can also open Audition and just import the clip. When you first open Audition, you'll have this as a waveform if you are in waveform view. There is also a knob in the bottom right corner that gives you the ability to lift this up, which gives you spectral view.
For what I'd like to do - which is remove one mechanical sound - this is the view I'd go in. You can actually see the phone right here. I'm going to use the Spot Healing Brush (or press letter B) to take out that sound. I'm going to go right over it and do these as well. Now, let's see what's happened to the phone. You get that emotional bond and you really see this stuff firsthand - it's almost completely gone! There was a little bit here, so I'm going to go over that one more time just to make sure there's no straggling sounds. This stuff is absolutely amazing!
When you're finished with this, I recommend exporting the file as something that's uncompressed, like an AIFF or WAV file. Now, why am I doing this? If I simply save my work in Audition, the file in Premiere Pro is replaced immediately by the repaired clip. Maybe I want both clips - one with a phone and one without. Now I have this one that still has a phone, and I have this one that's not prepared.
I hope you've enjoyed this lesson in removing one sound in Audition. This has been Margaret with Noble Desktop.