How to Reduce Noise in FL Studio

Last Updated: July 7, 2020

This wikiHow teaches you how to reduce noise in FL Studio using the plug-in Edison. The plug-in best works to remove continuous sounds, like a fan or electrical hissing, but not transient sounds, like a door slamming.

Steps

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Open FL Studio. You'll find this program or app in your Start Menu or Applications folder.
- If you don't have FL Studio, you can download a trial at https://www.image-line.com/downloads/flstudiodownload.html. This software works on both Windows and Mac computers.
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Click the Edit icon that looks like a pair of scissors. You'll find this icon in the top right corner of your screen next to icons of a microphone and a rectangular piece of paper.
- Edison (Master) will open in a new window over your project window.
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Click the New icon that looks like a floppy disk. This is the first icon in the horizontal menu.
- A menu will drop-down.
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Click Load Sample or click a suggestion from "Recent Projects." If you opted to load a sample, your file explorer will pop up and you can navigate to a sample. Otherwise, your selected project will load in Edison, the noise reducing tool.^{[1]
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Select the noise. Edison works best to remove continuous noise, like a fan or a hiss in the background.
- You can either select the noise from the wavelength screen or you can switch to spectral view to see the horizontal lines that usually indicate a continuous noise and click to select just the noise.
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Right-click the noise-reduction tool. This icon looks like a brush that you'll find in the horizontal menu running along the top of the editing space.
- You should see "Noise profile acquired" scroll up.
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Click the noise-reduction tool. This will open the clean up (denoise) window.
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Make sure "De-Noiser" is selected and "De-Clipper" and "De-Clicker" are off. This will ensure that all levels of the sound you previously selected will be removed from the audio sample.
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Set "Threshold" to 0db and "Amount" to 22. You can move your mouse to increase or decrease those amounts.
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Click Preview. You'll find this at the bottom of the window. If you don't like the sound, go back and change the threshold and amount settings.
- You can select "Output Noise Only" to hear the noise that will be removed.^{[2]
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Click Accept. You'll find this at the bottom of the window and will be redirected to the spectral view of your sound.^{[3]
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- Save the file once you are done by going to File > Save.