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 Mono
WNS 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 th
If 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
55Hz.
ds.
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ress,
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Chapter 3 – Interface and Controls
3.1 Interface
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3.2 Controls
Display
Bold White line represents th
Thin Orange line repr
Light 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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