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I wanted to know if I can use Audacity to filter background noise during a video call. Is it possible?

Thank you in advance.

Rookie mistake :(. Thank you all for your feedback. I'll use the blanket tip for a future project. I won't record everything a fourth time. I (and any viewer) will have to accept the room echo :oops:. But I would like to use De-esser to reduce the sibilance. I already have it installed in Audacity. ...

Hi everyone. This is the third time I record everything in order to make a video for the web. I'm an amateur that knows very little about video-making and sound-editing. I'm just doing this for fun and hope it all ends up being, at least, OK. In order to record, this time I placed the smartphone (it...

Thank you Mike and trebor all this has allowed me to learn more about thuds and the spectral view. I'm tempted on recording everything once again. At least now I know what I did wrong and have an idea of how to attenuate those thuds if they aren't too loud.

I really appreciate it all. Thank you both.

I thought I had it. I was able to remove the thuds from the small audio file I had shared with you before, but when I tried it on the original file, the spectral image actually looked somewhat different. In that one, I was only able to turn the thuds into softer bleeps. I'm attaching two screenshots...

Thank youTrebor. OK, I was able to do something using the spectral delete effect. The thud turned into a low volume bleep. I'll call that a step forward :). I could also try the De-clicker plugin but I get lost and intimidated with all the number fields. I tried copying the numbers shown by Trebor o...

OK, I watched the videos and studied what you've shared with me. I get a general idea but I'm not able to fix it myself. I don't know what's the frequency of the sounds I want to remove and I think I can see the thuds in the spectogram but I don't get what tool to use or how. I tried the notch filte...

Thank you mafg1953. I had no idea about the z and c shortcuts. They sound very useful! Yes, please help me a bit more regarding the spectral editing tools. I'm very lost about which to use and how to use it. Thank you in advance. Maybe this would a lot easier to fix with the De-esser plugin but I do...

Thank you both. very much! OK, I read both pages: (1) Spectogram View and (2) Spectral Selection and Edition. I understood very little of them both, but I did get a very general idea. I'm just an amateur trying to get a video ready for web-viewing just for the fun of it. I'm not a YouTuber either; I...

Thank you for your answer Trebor. So if I understand you correctly I can't remove the thuds (new word :)) with Audacity. Best thing I can do is prevent them next time I record voice. Correct? OK, I just looked up sibilance... so that's one more word in my vocabulary. I'll install the plugin and prob...