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Speech Enhancer
You can use Speech Enhancer to improve speech recordings made with your computers
internal microphone (if applicable). It combines denoising, advanced microphone
frequency remodeling, and multiband compression.
Denoise slider and field: Determines (your estimation of) the noise floor in your recording
and, therefore, how much noise should be eliminated. Settings towards 100 dB allow
more noise to pass. Settings towards 0 dB increasingly suppress background noise but
also proportionately increase artifacts.
Mic Correction buttons: Activate the On button to improve the frequency response of
recordings made with your built-in microphone. This creates the impression that an
up-market microphone was used.
Mic Model pop-up menu: Provides a choice of several microphone models that
compensate for tonal characteristics of particular built-in Macintosh microphones.
Note: You can use the Speech Enhancer effect with other microphones, but microphone
correction models are offered only for built-in Macintosh microphones and iSight.
Should a non-Apple microphone be used, you will achieve the best results if Mic
Correction is set to Generic.
Voice Enhance button and Enhance Mode pop-up menu: This button turns on the Speech
Enhancer multiband compression circuit. When it is active, you can choose from four
settings that make the recorded voice louder and more intelligible. Choose the setting
that best matches your recording situation.
(Female or Male) Solo: Use when the recorded signal consists of a vocal only.
(Female or Male) Voice Over: Use when the recorded signal contains both a vocal
performance and a musical or atmospheric bed.
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