I have the latest update for Audacity–3,7.4. I have been recording speaking Podcasts for the last five years. This is the first time I’ve had this problem. There are little pops throughout the podcast. I’m using a RODE NT-USB+ mike with a new 2025 MacBook Air with loads of memory. When I go to play the podcast back there are little pops. Also, when doing Noise Reduction I can’t see any adjustments being made. I get an 18 second sample then do noise reduction on the 1 hour recording. Here are my Noise Reduction settings. Can anyone tell me if this is right, wrong, indifferent or make any other suggestions. I have no way of re-recording this podcast that needs to go out this week. Thanks for any ideas.
You can try the Click Removal effect (automatic) or the Repair effect (manual). Regular Noise reduction is more for low-level background noise.
You’re probably getting dropouts caused by something going-on the background. Your operating system is always interrupting and multitasking, even when you’re only running one application.
Normally, buffers keep the audio flowing in-and-out smoothly but if something “hogs” the system for a few milliseconds too long you get buffer overflow (recording) or buffer underflow (playback) and a glitch.
The Audacity Noise Reduction effect is meant to reduce constant background noise such as hiss, hum and rumble. It will sometimes work with noises such as air conditioner fans. It is not designed to reduce occasional pops, clicks, background conversations, traffic noise and the like.
You could try using the spectrogram view to find the pops, then use the Repair effect (if the pop is short enough).
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