Audacity Forum

What normally happens is the recorder overloads and gives cracking, popping and crunchy sound.
You're dead. There's no tool or filter for that.

Koz

Select the whole show by clicking just above MUTE (track turns gray). Effect > High Pass Filter. Rolloff 12dB, Cutoff 100Hz. Start with 100Hz cutoff. If that's not enough, UNDO and change it to 150Hz and listen to that. Keep UNDOing and redoing increasing the frequency until most of it's gone. You m...

The reason I'm going on about this is to get original recordings up to snuff. It can be nearly impossible to "rescue" bad recordings in post-production.

The kiss of death is a forum posting that uses the words: "help me clean up."

Koz

5: The latest vesion. You still can't do that. Audacity 2.11 is also the latest version, but it's bogus and not supported. The Real Thing is Audacity 2.1.1. I should not have to crank it all the way up either. You crank it to where it needs to be to record the performance. I'm not completely comfor...

To be clear, I would put the recorder on the black board instead of the microphone.
Koz

I'm wearing mine out. I use it's ability to vanish while in use (attached, scroll down). I've also nearly never found a condition that it wouldn't record. If you put one in the middle of the table, I would have thought it would record any conference. I've made microphone assemblies that worked for t...

And as before, you stabbed yourself repeatedly by not having WAV or other uncompressed format anywhere in the process. Each pass through MPEG (M4A, etc) or MP3 causes additional distortion and makes the rescue effort harder and harder ... or impossible. There was a fantasy story of a guy that had a ...

I didn't publish initially because it's a lot of work for nearly no benefit. -- Import the Background noise clip into Audacity -- Select the whole clip or show by clicking just above MUTE. -- Effect > Normalize > [X]Remove DC, [X]Normalize to -1 > OK -- Drag-select the first 20 seconds or so. -- Eff...

I can do that when I get back. I can make out one or two more of the words. That may be enough to write it all down and have an announcer read it for the sound submission. Or if you have a good Text To Speech program. The original performance is trash.

Koz

Here. This is a normal recording (given my odd voice).

Koz