Abstract: The system for suppressing an ambient noise signal which comtaminates a desired signal includes a noise pickup detector for detecting the ambient noise signal. A noise discriminator processes the detected noise signal into noise data. A reference noise generator converts the noise data into a reference noise signal. The noise generator automatically adjusts the reference noise signal to correspond with changes in the noise signal as it is being detected. A filter filters the reference noise signal into an error signal which is adapted to remove the noise signal from the contaminated signal. A cross-correlator cross-correlates the contaminated signal with the reference noise signal and adjusts the filter to produce the required error signal.