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Yes. They all sound a million times better than the ones I had. Yes, I would love to know how you did that. And do you all have a place where you take donations?

We do, but lets get you out of trouble first.

The simplest one is the last one where I just took out all the rumbly sounds. This can make the show sound a little tight and high, but it's a normal news gathering technique.

Do this to your clip first and see if you like it before applying it to the whole interview. DO NOT save the corrected show to the same filename as the original interview. Once you do that and something goes wrong, you have no show. Full stop. Always use new filenames.

Effect > High Pass Filter: 24dB, 200Hz > OK

If that's close enough, then we're done. If you want to suppress the crowd a little bit, drag-select the portion of your clip as in the first picture. Effect > Noise Removal > Get Profile.

Then select the whole show and Effect > Noise Removal: use the settings in the second picture > OK.

The big kids use a short shotgun microphone in hand-held close to the speaker's mouth. The microphone should have a foam wind sock on it. I'm working on an illustration for that. None yet. Sorry.

Koz

The Noise Removal step is delicate and will only work as long as the crowd noise doesn't change. If it does, you have to go through and get a new profile with the new crowd. The application settings in step two should stay the same.

If this was easy, anybody could do it.

What's left? Oh right.

http://audacityteam.org/donate/

Koz

Thankyou, Thankyou, and Thankyou again. It worked great. None of that wind interference. Of course I want a little bit of chatter because its real world. I appreciate your help so much. And I have the donate website. Thanks
Damon