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cameronsnicholls81 wrote:an SSSSS spiking in sections of the track

De-essing selectively reduces those.
There is an Audacity-specific De-esser plugin, but it's comparatively difficult to use,
( you may be able to find a more user-friendly de-esser plugin elsewhere)

1) what is the easiest way to skip forwards/backward etc to label 1 , then to label 2 locations. You can jump to last/next label using "Alt"+"←", "Alt"+"→" ... http://forum.audacityteam.org/download/file.php?id=18533 http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/label_t...

If the scratching sound doesn't correspond with high-volume, i.e. it's random, then skipping is a possible explanation. http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/faq_recording_troubleshooting.html#How_can_I_record_without_small_skips_or_duplications.3F If it is skipping, turning the CPU-priority of Audacit...

... Feel free to write some documentation if you have time ... Dynamics Processing Dynamic Mirror (dynamic-mirror.ny) download Author: Steve Dalton Is an envelope-follower : it applies the loudness- envelope of one track to the selected track(s) below it. It can also apply the inverted version of t...

Reverb reduction ...

iZotope's demo of "Ozone Imager" on YouTube ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P819NzjN4rw
( IMO they've over-did the stereo-widening a bit for purposes of illustration )

In this version, if only one track is selected, the plug-in follows the amplitude of the selected track, and then applies that envelope to the same track NB: If repeat effect, ( "Ctrl"+"R" ), is used to repeatedly apply version-2 of dynamic-mirror to one track only, the effect b...

vfupodcast wrote: ... his "catch" of us two talking was significantly louder, and it took me 7 hours to get it all to vanish (mostly).

The AutoDuck tool possibly could enable you to do that post-production quicker :
use the track of "us two talking" to duck the other person.

... I've tried lowering the volume of the entire audio by clicking on the volume thing in the lefthand box of the soundtrack. That seems to help but it means lowering the volume of the entire track, which I don't want to do. If you just want to change the volume of parts of the recording, you can d...

Add de-essing to the repertoire ...
The excessively sibilant frequencies, (6.5kHz -12kHz in this case), are used to duck.