I’m trying to remove popping sounds and looking at tutorials on how to do it. The problem is, they’re able to delete/edit parts of the track in the spectogram view and the pop goes away- but when I do it, the pop goes away and instead creates pops at either side of where I’ve selected.
I’m a complete noobie to audacity but I can’t find anyone else referencing this problem online.
Zoom in close on the artefact that you can see in the track spectrogram view, then switch to the default waveform view. You will then probably see that there’s a discontinuity in the waveform.
There is also a Click Removal effect, the Repair Effect, or you can zoom-in and manually re-draw the waveform with the Draw Tool, or you can cut-out or just mute the short section with the defect. (If you mute or cut, make sure you are cutting/muting on the zero-crossings or use the short cross-fade so there are no sudden discontinuities in the waveform.)