Waves Audio WNS User Guide

WNS
Waves
Noise Suppressor

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 – Introduction............................................3
1.1 Welcome...............................................................................................................3
1.2 Product Overview................................................................................................3
1.3 Concepts and Terminology ...............................................................................4
1.4 Components.........................................................................................................5
1.5 WaveSystem Toolbar..........................................................................................5
Chapter 2 – Quick Start Guide .................................... 6
Chapter 3 – Interface and Controls ............................7
3.1 Interface...............................................................................................................7
3.2 Controls ................................................................................................................8
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Chapter 1 – Introduction

1.1 Welcome

Thank you for choosing Waves! In order to get the most out of your new Waves plugin, please take a moment to read this user guide.
To install software and manage your licenses, you need to have a free Waves account. Sign up at www.waves.com. With a Waves account you can keep track of your products, renew your Waves Update Plan, participate in bonus programs, and keep up to date with important information.
We suggest that you become familiar with the Waves Support pages:
www.waves.com/support. There are technical articles about installation,
troubleshooting, specifications, and more. Plus, you’ll find company contact information and Waves Support news.

1.2 Product Overview

The WNS Waves Noise Suppressor was designed and engineered for Post Production professionals who require fast and effective broadband noise suppression for the cleaning of dialog tracks. It is suitable for both indoor and location recordings of dialog polluted by stationary and/or modulating environment noise.
WNS is not intended for surgical removal of specific short term interferences. It is, rather, a general noise suppressor that will preserve the dialog and suppress unwanted signal simply and smoothly, with natural sound and minimal artifacts.
About Waves Post Production Tools When Waves decided to develop a line of dedicated audio processors
especially for Post Production, we conferred with the people who truly understand the field better than anyone: The Post professionals who design, edit, and mix sound for motion pictures, television, multimedia, and video games.
Waves knows that Post Production work presents audio engineers with specialized challenges. Once we had identified and analyzed these issues and concerns, we set out to create the most advanced, most innovative Post Production sound solutions available.
Waves is proud to bring more than two decades of audio processing expertise to the world of Post Production.
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1.3 Concepts and Terminology

The Waves WNS Noise Suppressor is a suppressor for dial
og tracks, engineered especially for post production
high resolution broadband noise professionals. The WNS is based on an exclusive 6-band dynamic EQ engine, with 3
standard E
Q filters pe
r band. Using 2 basic controls, Threshold and Gain reduction, WNS defines and then suppresses all signal it perceives as non­dialog. It does not introduce any latency, nor does it require noise print learning. Simply set the global Threshold to just below the dialog level, and then use the Frequency range faders to shape the desired reduction intensity.
Two additional controls, Low Frequency a suppre
ssion frequency range, leaving the areas below and above that range,
nd High Frequency, set the noise
respectively unprocessed. If the Low Frequency is set to 80 Hz, and the High Frequency is set to 8000 Hz, the graph will reflect these borders, and not display any signal beyond the specified range (The minimum adjustable frequency range is two octaves).
In addition; High Pass and Low Pass filters can be engaged to cut frequencies below or above
the “border values”.
Default frequency area for each gain fader:
Fader
(Left to right)
Frequency
(Hz)
1 2 3 4 5 6
30 99 330 1094 3627 1202
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1.4 Components

WaveSh ins, which particular processor gives you the flexibility to choose the configuration best suited to your material.
The Waves Noise
WNS MonoWNS Stere
ell technology enables us to split Waves processors into smaller plug-
we call components. Having a choice of components for a
Suppressor consists of two components:
o

1.5 WaveSystem Toolbar

Use the bar at the top of the plugin to save and load presets, compare settings, undo and redo steps, and resize the plugin. To learn more, click the icon at the upper-right corner of the window and open the WaveSystem Guide.
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Chapter 2 – Quick Start Guide

Insert the
other dyna
Using you
frequency
Lower thIf nee
amount of
If de
the High are alw
ctors. For example, if you limit the range to between 50Hz and 800H
sele then the faders will be distributed across the range between these values.
Frequencies
faders, but can be filtered out using the low pass and high pass filter
Use the content-dependent Smoothing fader to control the release behavior
of the
WNS on a dialog track. Typically, it should be placed before
mic processors which may increase nois
r ears as well as the WNS noise profile curve, locate
range(s) that requires noise suppression.
e Gain for
ded,
change the value of the Global Threshold to ensure the righ suppression is taking plac
sired,
limit the frequency range to which su
and Low frequency range selectors. Please note: The gain fad
ays aligned to the frequency range defined by the frequen
outside of the specified range are not affected by the gain
pressor.
sup
the frequency range(s) that you want to suppress.
e.
e.
ppression is applied using
the
t
ers
cy
z,
s.
The four
frequency use th faders to the exact value; all fader values update in real-time. If, fo example, the frequency you need is 555Hz, set the Low frequency range selector to 70Hz and the High frequency range selector to third
The Sugges
extra the Threshold and/or Gain Faders to suit your specific nee
center Gain Fader values are set according to the High and Lo
borders. If you know the frequency that you want to supp
e High and Low frequency range selectors to set one of the gain
12410hz; the
fader from the left will then be set to 5
t feature is based on the real-time noise profile that the WNS
cts from the audio file. Use Suggest as a starting point, then adjust
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Chapter 3 – Interface and Controls

3.1 Interface

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3.2 Controls

Display
Bold White line represents thThin Orange line reprLight Blue line represents th
esents the detected Noise Profile.
e Noise Suppression.
e gain fader’s current location.
Threshold
R
ange: -80 to 0dB
Default: -20dB
ontrols
c
the level at which noise suppression is activated.
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Gain Faders control R
ange: -32 to +6 dB
Default: 0dB
Smoothing con
trols
the amoun
t of noise suppression.
the release behavior of the noise suppression.
Range: 1 – 10
0
Default: 50
Suggest takes all gain faders to the
suggested suppression noise curve
according to the WNS noise profile detector.
Link mo
ves all gain faders together simultaneously.
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Frequency Area
The minimum interval between the high and low borders is two octaves.
Low Frequency determine Range: 20
Hz to 4000 Hz
s the lowe
st range of the noise suppression.
Default: 30 Hz
High Frequency determine Range: 400
Hz to 20000 Hz
s the highe
st range of the noise suppression.
Default: 12027 Hz
is a high pass filter which filters out the signal below the selected
HP frequency.
Range:
On, Off
Default: Off
LP is a frequency.
Range:
low pass filter which filters out the signal above the selected
On, Off
Default: Off
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