Removing a sound of someone touching a microphone cable

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I’ve got sometimes the people I interview touching the microphone cable producing a sort of thump sound (I have attached a sample). In some cases, I can delete it without affecting the recording, but sometimes it coincides with the person talking and I cannot just delete it without deleting a part of a word. I wonder if it’s possible to delete this sound without affecting the speech part.

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High pass filter at 130Hz 48dB/octave removes a lot of that thump without affecting the (female) speech.

Then nibble-away at what’s left of the thump with spectral editing tools.

https ://audio.com/anonymous-audio/before-after-de-thump-in-audacity

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Thanks a lot! It worked wonder!