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It's characteristics place it in an ambient sound category, like those of wind passing through an empty building, or the sound effects used in the first "alien" movie, however heterogeneous in that it has a definite pitch. Comb filter ed noise is close ... combed noise.flac https://en.wik...

art1980 wrote:... it doesn't like "normal" songs that we'd hear on Spotify or in iTunes.

Possibly* lack of dynamic range compression.

https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/compressor.html

( * as you're not linking to an example I'm just guessing )

-- it's like a bass buzz that comes and goes suddenly with certain chords. ATTACHMENTS Wedding mix2.mp3 Mp3 version (1.67 MiB) I can't hear any buzz on that mp3. It could just be an acoustic resonance effect on your particular playback device. Playing a test-sweep could reveal any peculiar resonanc...

This is great, thanks. I assume it is the same installation process as others (copy file to plug in library)? Yes : it's just another Nyquist plugin , which work in Audacity on all platforms (Windows/Mac/Linux). If you can post a few seconds of saliva clicks. I can suggest bespoke settings for the ...

It's to help remove "saliva clicks" - if that's what you'd call them. Rather than noise-gate plugin , try DeClicker plugin, (example settings below)... http://forum.audacityteam.org/download/file.php?id=17996&sid=7fcae808dd45228b956edbdd9a92fff0 http://forum.audacityteam.org/download/...

ekblackwell wrote:The original has it too.

Not fixable even with paid-for software as there are bits of audio missing ...

ekblackwell wrote:Is there a way to get this crackle from the voices?

If you zoom-in you'll see small sections have been chopped out: it's a jigsaw with pieces missing.

... SoundRider plugin ... May be you can give me some tipps how you install it? You may have to install Microsoft "DirectX" to make SoundRider work, (see " requirements ") (I did, but I'm on Vista, which is old). NB: Audacity only accepts 32-bit plugins, even if your OS is 64-bit.

... there are times when I only know the base frequency to notch and would want to notch out all the other harmonics of that frequency... It's similar to the vuvuzela problem. DeHum plugin does remove most of it if set to 152.5Hz ... 'Sopranina 6P' minus 152-5Hz & harmonics.flac The slight vibr...

It's interference in the form of pulses ...
Sometimes that can be due to different software fighting over control of the audio input.
It could be radio interference if it's a wireless mic, (if that was the case it would have been detectable at the time).