Your Wireless Micro includes a helpful Noise Reduction feature designed to enhance your audio recordings by minimising persistent background sounds. This guide will help you understand how it works and when to use its different settings.
What Can Noise Reduction Do For You?
Imagine you're recording, and there's a steady hum from an air conditioner, a whirring fan, or the general drone of distant traffic. That's where Noise Reduction steps in! It's specially designed to target and reduce these kinds of continuous, ambient background noises.
This means your main audio – like your voice – can come through more clearly, making your recordings sound more professional and focused.
What is this feature best for?
To get the best results, it's handy to know that this Noise Reduction is crafted to tackle those persistent background hums and rumbles. It's different from features like active noise cancellation you might find in some headphones (which try to block out nearly all external sound). It's also not designed to instantly silence sudden, sharp sounds like a quick car horn or a door slamming.
Its real power is in cleaning up the soundscape from those ongoing background noises, giving your desired audio the spotlight.
Noise Reduction Settings: Low or High, which one is best for you?
The Noise Reduction feature is OFF when you first start. You can easily switch it on and choose between two levels:
Setting LOW
Best for, Quieter indoor spaces where you want to reduce subtle background sounds.
- Examples Include: Computer fans, the soft hum of air conditioning, faint distant traffic, or the general quiet ambience of a room.
- Use it when you're recording podcasts, voiceovers, or online calls at home or in the office. It helps clean up those slight, steady noises.
Setting HIGH
Best for, Louder environments, especially outdoors, with more noticeable background noise.
- Examples Include: Clearer traffic rumble, rustling leaves or trees, the sound of a gentle water feature, or general outdoor city sounds.
- Use it when you're filming vlogs outside, doing interviews in public areas, or any recording situation where the surrounding environmental sound is more prominent.