Just a quickie!! How to edit out breaths from voice clip?

[madsh]

Sorry to be a pain people, but have successfully recorded a voice clip in Audacity using a mic and a pre-amp/sound card but the breaths in the copy sound a little louder than I would like - have tried silencing those little sections but it hasn't worked?

Also tried enveloping but it won't allow me the option to fade (it's greyed out?) - any help please?!!!

Mads

[ibedi]

I use the amplify effect so that you can barely hear it. You can listen to how it sounds before you finalize it. So select the breath on the wave form, go to amplify and turn it down to about an inch or a little less from the left end of the bar. That way you don't have complete silence and if you leave the timing the same people will feel comfortable. If you cut it all out, then it leaves the listener feeling anxious because it seems like you never breathe.

[kozikowski]

<<breaths in the copy>>>

I bet those aren't quite the right English words. I bet the problem isn't when the actor took a breath during the performance, I bet the real problem is the actor was too close to the microphone and breathed on it during the words.

That is a great deal harder to correct. In some cases, the microphone actually overloads when you do that and delivers a very awkward smashing sound during plosives like "P" and "B" sounds.

Did I hit it? Can we hear a clip? Can you post a bit of it somewhere?

Koz