I am using Audacity 2.1.3, on Windows 10.
Ok, so something really triggers my OCD when recording in Audacity; the clicking of the keyboard and mouse! It’s so annoying the constant click clack click clack…
How do I get rid of it?
Games, right?
I’m not sure how gamers do it, other than possibly a really tight headset and good noise reduction in a boom microphone. That and heavily soundproof your desk so it doesn’t reverberate with the key clicks. Set the keyboard and mouse on a doubled over blanket or bath towel instead of on the wood. A live desk makes everything worse.
Ignore everything in this picture except the furniture moving blanket on the desk.
Your payment for this kind of noise reduction is only fair voice quality. I stopped using my headset because the microphone wasn’t remotely up to audiobook and podcasting voice quality standards. So our goals may be different.
That’s the task. Find somebody who’s doing what you want and sweet-talk them into telling you how they did it. Then post back.
Koz
Nah, I’m not the one who really records their voice for gaming videos… I don’t like how high pitched my voice sounds in recording; I got in puberty later than normal, so my voice is still high pitched. I can always lower the pitch of it in Audacity, but it takes some fiddling to get it how I want it.
I also just remembered about an hour or two after posting that I can do noise reduction…
I also just remembered about an hour or two after posting that I can do noise reduction…
…on noises that never change. Noise reduction works a treat on hiss, hum, air conditioner, refrigerator or other constant noises. It’s a lot less effective on traffic, conversations, music…or key clicks.
The first step kills you. Select some of the noise and Effect > Noise Reduction > Profile. The next time you select Noise Reduction, it charges off down the show looking for the exact noise that appears in the Profile. The shorter the profile or the more erratic, the worst the results.
The desperation method is copy-paste/collect a bunch of key clicks in one track and use that as the profile. It has to be “clean” copy-pastes. The messier the Profile, the more Noise Reduction is going to destroy your voice.
Koz
I don’t like how high pitched my voice sounds in recording
In My Opinion, you should not try to make your voice sound like everyone else. Particularly if you have good reading skills, a distinctive voice is marketable.
Koz
Plenty of examples of that: Sean Connery, Richard Burton, Fenella Fielding, Michael Caine,…