spectral gating

noun

A signal processing technique used primarily for noise reduction and creative sound design; converting a signal into the frequency domain (a spectrogram), estimating a noise threshold for each frequency band, and then gating" (muting or reducing the volume of) any signal below that threshold.

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nounspectral gating (plural spectral gatings)

plural spectral gatings

  1. audioA signal processing technique used primarily for noise reduction and creative sound design; converting a signal into the frequency domain (a spectrogram), estimating a noise threshold for each frequency band, and then gating" (muting or reducing the volume of) any signal below that threshold.
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