I;m using Audacity 2.0.5. Many parts of some audio I recorded have segments of sound that are really warped and at completely different levels.
I have a link to the screenshot here, and I have the audio clip of it attached.
I’d like to know if there’s a way to make this better, or if it’s just too badly recorded to bother.
I apologize for not being specific enough, but I don’t know exactly what I need to do.
I can get rid of a lot of the distortion through clever tricks, but the portion right at the end is hopeless because there’s no show there to rescue (attached).
Koz
That actually sounds decent. How would I go about replicating it?
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Somehow you managed to have your show ping-pong between left and right several times. Since the show sound never really dropped out, I reduced the show to mono and those effects vanished.
Tracks > Stereo Track to Mono.
Then, since most of the trash is rumble and truck-driving-by sounds, I filtered them out with Effect > High Pass Filter: 150Hz, 24dB.
Many field pro sound mixers have a button so you can apply that filter during the recording, so I’m not making that up. The default cutoff is 100Hz, but I have a mixer with 80Hz and 160Hz selectable with a switch. Try different numbers. You’re juggling suppressing the thumping pops versus the low, velvety quality of your voice. As the number goes up, your voice tightens up.
Koz
