However, noise gate only removes noise which is in between vocals. Here is the same recording with noise gate applied and raw: Top recording has noise gate applied and bottom recording is raw. Noise gate settingsĪpply noise gate to your whole recording. If you feel like it sounds too choppy, then slightly increase Attack/Decay. The rest of the settings can be the same as in the picture below. Add about 5dB to your noise floor peak level and this is what your Gate threshold should be. Now that we know noise floor peak level we need to use noise gate settings accordingly.
Playback level How to use noise gate to reduce noise floor Look at the blue line within the graph, it shows the highest peak of your recording. Now play the recording and observe playback level. You can do so by simply recording empty room. Measure noise floorīefore applying noise gate we will need to measure a room tone. Now you should be able to find noise gate in the Effect menu.
To install the Noise gate Plug-in open Audacity and go to Tools -> Add / Remove Plug-ins… -> Find noise gate plug-in -> Click enable If you are not allowed to download directly to C:\Program Files (x86)\Audacity\Plug-Ins folder, then download it anywhere and copy-paste it to the Plug-Ins folder. You can download noise gate plugin here: ĭownload plugin to this folder: C:\Program Files (x86)\Audacity\Plug-Ins Noise gate, by default, is not installed into Audacity.
