noise reduction?

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Hi guys, heres a section of a ocean sample i want to use in a ambient/meditation song, but im not sure if needs noise reduction, sounds like theres some high pitch background hiss, but ocean as im finding is verry hard to do noise reduction since waves are basically white noise, so ill be loosing some of the nice details in it, anyways wanted to ask ur opinion on this since im very confused and my monitoring n ears not so good, would u guys leave as is, or process it? thanks

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/80928016/ocean check.wav
 
To me, it would depend on how much you're going to boost the sample to fit into your mix. If you're going to add 20+ dBs, then you might have a problem.

On crappy speakers, I couldn't hear the hiss when I turned it way up. You could sweep through with a high-Q'd EQ and try to eliminate the bothersome sound manually, but I doubt a noise reduction piece of software will help much.
 
thats the volume in the track, it plays just the ocean byitself much of the song, and is peaking around -26db, but then theres mastering to consider them turning up volumes..the hiss/noise is apparent at high volumes,sounds like the noise u hear when u turn up speakers really loud and nothing is playing, tryed the eq sweep with no luck, still not sure if should just leave it alone, thoughts?
thanks

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/80928016/ocean check.wav
 
gates not gona work, ocean playing byitself much of the song, cant have parts just gating out,
 
I don't hear any hiss (not exactly listening to this on high quality monitors) but I'd think a very judicious parametric eq should get rid of what you don't want.
 
Did a listen on Genelec 8030a - no high pitched hiss.
It could be some kind of interference that your sound card is picking up that you are hearing (built in sound cards, usb interfaces on laptops<-if you are using laptop unplug the power cord and see if the noise is still there).
 
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