I want to cut and paste a piece of audio into another track but there is a a click sound where the pasted portion meets the original.
I imported both tracks into Audacity, selected them both and clicked Normalize > Remove DC Offset.
Then i selected the region of audio to paste into another track and clicked Edit > Find Zero Crossings.
Then i used shortcut CTRL+X to cut selected region and pasted into new window.
I removed unnecessary track, selected correct track and chose Edit > Find Zero Crossings.
Usually cutting/splicing at the zero-crossings will take care of that, but often the left & right channel zero crossings don’t exactly match, or maybe there is some other issue -
A [u]crossfade[/u] (fade-out, fade-in, and overlap) will almost always make a smooth splice/transition and it can be just a few milliseconds long if you don’t want to hear the actual crossfade.
I placed each segment on a different track and faded out the end of first clip and faded in the beginning of the second clip and slide each into position (yellow vertican line) but i still had the click sound.