Hi guys, while I’m cleaning up my vinyl recordings in Audacity I’m using Noise Reduction effect to reduce the noise, and as we know: While the record is rotating the noise have some weird sounds that I want to clean up and make the noise sound as same, which will sound like recorded from magnetic tape or something (I’m not talking about how to simulate tape effect, I’m talking about effects which just like RX’s Deconstruct effect which can make noise sound as same noise level all the time).
Thank you!
It’s a bit difficult to understand exactly what you’re trying to do. I would normally use the Noise Reduction effect to reduce audible record noise between tracks. Are you trying to make the gaps between the tracks sound like tape hiss? That seems an odd thing to do, but could easily be achieved by finding a couple of seconds of suitable record noise, copying it and then pasting it into the remaining gaps between the tracks.
I don’t understand either…
A LOT of vinyl defects can’t be fixed. 
You can ADD hiss (white noise) that sounds like tape noise but it won’t cover-up (mask) “weird sounds” unless those other sounds are very quiet and it will likely sound worse overall.
Or you could PROBABLY add more-constant vinyl crackle with Izotope Vinyl. Izotope vinyl is free but I don’t know if it works with the current version of Audacity.
I will try to explain it more easier: I’m trying to remove vinyl noise artifacts like wind and all this kind of shit that you can’t restore in Audacity. Izotope RX have the effect Deconstruct which says it’s finding where’s vinyl noise is changing during the audio (because the record is rotating) and balancing it as the same for the entire audio (the lowest noise), then you can do noise reduction or using spectral repair (that you find spectral spike and you draw the place where you found it then remove it just like in Photoshop) which is better than what Audacity have, but izotope RX is paid and I’m sad. So what I’m trying to say is that I want to find audacity plugin effects which are similar to Deconstruct and Spectral Repair.
I doubt if that’s possible with Audacity. There is some spectral editing available but I don’t think it’s as powerful as you want.
I’ve digitised hundreds of LPs and never found such an effect necessary. In fact, where there is some vinyl noise I usually just use the Noise Reduction effect only on the very quietest sections or between tracks. It’s not needed when the music is loud.
As an afterthought, are you using a record cleaning machine to get the vinyl as clean as possible before digitising? That might help.
For cleaning LPs I’m using spray & fabric and anti static brush. Also, ya know, cleaning vinyl noise in audacity is also hard when it’s LP beginning and that’s why I want to clean all the LP songs as best.
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