November Contest: Gossip

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......I tried to gate the vocals to get rid of the hiss, but the only good solution would be to record it again....

Have you tried;

https://www.kvraudio.com/product/reafir_by_cockos

I find it very good in that you can edit the noise profile - i.e. stop it removing anything below a certain frequency, usually around 9khz or so for hiss type noise. FFT size of 4096 seems to work best - haven't a clue what it means, just messed with various settings. Definitely the best noise reduction I've used (never tried Izotope RX mind) and it's free...

Thanks for the tip. Somehow I forgot about that feature, which I have often used in Audacity. Too far between my music-making sessions, I suppose, and I keep forgetting techniques I have learnt. Added Reafir in my plugins folder, so hopefully I will remember next time. I'll also try to improve the gain staging.