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Same problem. Someone applied extreme noise reduction and it's almost impossible to recover from that kind of distortion. I thought about trying to reverse the tonal grouping caused by the noise reduction (comb filtering), but the first part and second parts of the sound file are different. Someone ...

you can record separate audio for every participant.

[Writing that down.]

Koz

Oh. I missed that. He also has microphone buzzing and if you increase the treble too much, it will sound like a penny vibrating on a plate. If I had to guess at the interview story, I would say they made a bad recording and your sound file is what happened when somebody tried to fix it. Can you get ...

Thanks for the sample. No. You're stuck. The voice is choppy because it went through a noise gate. The silent bits are not just natural room noise, they're absolute dead digital zero. On top of that is the data compression "talking into a wine glass" sound. The sound already has a presence...

Nothing wrong with the microphone. It's side-fire, or side address, so you should be speaking into the company name. It doesn't matter if the microphone is upside down. You should be about a Hawaiian Shaka away. https://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/HawaiianShakaSpacing-NoScreen-500t.jpg The micro...

The Audiobook Mastering Suite doesn't use compressors. RMS Normalize is a straight, plain volume control with a fancy name. The suite was designed to hit audiobook RMS (Loudness) and Peak numbers without creating its own sound personality or compression distortion. Most of the time it just makes the...

Post some of it. "Flat and dull" is not a lot to go on. They don't have to sound like a cellphone (unless it was actually placed from a cellphone). I did a Skype call recording and my subject, in spite of being three time zones away, sounded like she was sitting on the sofa beside me. http...

That's automatic noise suppression. Human voices are constantly changing, so it's a safe bet that if you have a musical tone hanging around for too long, it's probably noise and the system gets rid of it. Systems like that hate music. Your microphone or microphone system can do that and Windows can ...

File > Save Project > Save Project As. Give it a new name. Poof. New Project. That's how it works in the current Audacity 2.3.3. If you're in an earlier Audacity, you'll have to look carefully at the File options. You should try Effect > Change Tempo before you fall in love with it. Change Tempo and...

Post some of the noise.

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We have pre-baked solutions for some noises.

Koz