How to label 'buzzing' audio

How can I label sections of audio which have an electronic buzzing sound? These sections are difficult to see in the Waveform view, but easily seen in the Spectrogram view, particularly if they occur in a quiet area, which are the places I’m most interested in. I’m hoping for something like ‘Label Sounds’ which I use all the time for other purposes.

This image demonstrates what I mean, and this video includes audio so you can also hear what I mean. I’m not interesting in applying a filter to all the audio since that reduces quality (at least in my hands) – I just want to label them so I can go and fix each case where the buzzing is in a quiet section.

Thanks

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The spectrum from the buzzing (glitching) extends strongly to 17kHz.

If you create a duplicate track, and high-pass at say 16kHz 48db/octave, there are pulses corresponding which each click, (after amplification) …

Then use “label sounds” on that high-passed duplicate track.

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Thank you for the suggestion @Trebor – I tried it briefly, but I’ll have to do some more testing when I have more time to see if it’s going to work practically for me. But I do think this makes a lot of sense and it should work.

Just throwing this out there without testing anything…

You might be able to avoid having to generate labels if you use the track Trebor suggests above to do auto-ducking.

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On this occasion a possible alternative to auto-ducking is Pop-mute plug-in … https://plugins.audacityteam.org/nyquist-plugins/effect-plugins/dynamics-processing#pop-mute

but, (clue in the title), it will mute all of the audio when the buzz occurs, not just the buzz.

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