Hi everybody,
I use Audacity for voice recordings. I have uploaded a 20 second Audacity project here (8 MB):
https://we.tl/t-ZZqPK3OK7V
Could you please open the project in Audacity and tell me what settings you would chose to eliminate static, and if you think that soundproofing my walls would get me a better sound result?
Current setup: Rode NT1-A mic, Focusite Solo, microphone shield
Thank you so much in advance!
It doesn’t sound so noisy, I amplified and then used the sound reduction tool, the regular one that comes bundled with audacity (don’t know about another one), the result was a reasonably clear speech. About the background noise (noticeable before the noise reduction), I don’t know if it is environmental, so can’t tell you anything about soundproofing your walls.
You can post a mono, WAV, 20 second presentation on the forum. Scroll down from a forum text screen > Attachments > Add Files.
Your first post by my count is going through three different conversions and an unknown download site.
Koz
There is a constant cicada-like* noise at about 8.6kHz, which can be reduced with a notch-filter …
@Ivalogic thank you for your feedback, noise reduction is what I use too.
@Trebor thank you for your feedback and edited sample, sounds much better, did not know about this tool. The file was completely unprocessed, so I use noise reduction to get the final outcome, which then sounds pretty similar to what you have posted. I don’t know what the difference between noise reduction / notch filter would be. Could you please ellaborate on that? And how do you find the frequency of the noise, in this case 8.6khz?
@kozikowski I am uploading a 10 sec clip in wav because anything bigger than that will result in more than 2 Mb mx file size. Do you think you can also give me a piece of advice? I would really appreciate your help! 
Audacity can display sound as a waveform, (the default setting), or as a spectrogram which shows the frequency content in a multi-color display.
The constant-noise appears as a continuous horizontal band on the spectrogram at about 8.6kHz …
