Speech Enhancer
You can use Speech Enhancer to improve speech recordings made with your computer’s 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 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.