Is it possible to remove breathing sounds in vocal tracks?

[Kirk's Puppet]

I'm using Cool Edit Pro 2.1 and I have a good vocal track, but it has breathing sounds in the background along to the singing. Is there an easy way to eliminate just the breathing sound?

Thanks.

[scheid]

Not that I can think of. The only thing that may be possible is to use a notch EQ filter to try to take it out. Not sure that would work, but if the breathing falls in a narrow EQ range, you might be able to notch it out. Of course that might also color the overall vocal track. I've never seen a spectrum analysis of breathing :-) , so I don't know what its frequency characteristics would be.

[Screamin_Demon_Auz]

Mess around with the gate control levels. That is what is supposed to block out quiet sounds in the background like breathing sounds. I've never had much luck with finding a good enough setting but i've never spent much time on it.

[Ethan.]

Is the gate control on the mic?

[Screamin_Demon_Auz]

No its usually with compression. Like a Compression Processor usually has Compression/De-esser/Noise Gate. If Cool Edit Pro doesn't have one under the effects, you can download one somewhere online.

[Forlorn Hope]

Under the Dynamics Processing, there are several De-esser presets in Cool Edit Pro. Try using those (as said above), and it should help with the breathing sounds.

[Nick]

If you really want them gone you could always go through manually and silence all the breathing sections

but CEP should have a noise gate somewhere you can mess with

[Fraggy]

TRY noise removal, that may work.

[Ethan.]

It won't unless designate the breathing sound as the noise. Then it would probably screw up some stuff in parts where there is no breath noise.