Graphical sound denoising challenge results

And the winner is Iain Fergusson with the following entry made with GIMP:



Extract of the original song:

Iain's result:

Iain obtained this excellent result and won a free copy of Photosounder worth €99 by following these steps :

• Find selection of sound which is just noise, copy and paste to new layer


• Pixelate it with pixel height 1, and width as wide as the layer is


• Resize noise selection layer to fit entire image


• Set noise selection layer to 'subtract' - adjust curves if you need more subtraction


• 'Copy visible'


• Paste this into a mask on the original image


• Create black layer below the original


• Adjust curves on original layer mask to push light parts to white, and carefully, push the very darkest parts to black


• Save image

You can download the full denoised song here.