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WAVELAB
9 – 188 Off-line processing
An example of using “Add point at level selection”
The “Add point at level selection” function can be used to create a noise
gate with a threshold at a certain level. Let’s say you have a recording of
narration, with noise between the phrases that you’d like to remove:
1. Make a regular selection in a section that only contains background noise.
The longer this selection, the more accurate the result will be.
2. Select “Extend to peaks” from the Select submenu on the Edit menu.
The selection height now represents the level of the background noise.
3. Open the Dynamics dialog and set it up for graphic editing.
4. Remove all breakpoints from the graph.
5. Click on the “Add point at level selection” button.
6. Add a second breakpoint, “manually”, to the left of the one that just ap-
peared.
7. Drag this second breakpoint so that it appears directly below the other
one, at the bottom of the graph.
See the noise gate example above.
8. Adjust the Attack, Hold and Release settings as desired.
9. Go back to the Wave window and select the section to be gated.
10. Open the Dynamics window and click the Process button.
11. Listen to the result, and if necessary, Undo, adjust the settings and Pro-
cess again.
Expert settings
The Dynamics dialog has a special tab devoted to “expert” settings. Click
the question mark icon in the respective dialog for details.