Cleaning Up Audio Files with Audacity

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When you’re dealing with audio files, there will be times when you run into a few problems. This is especially true with voice recordings and audio that was converted to a digital format from a cassette tape or a vinyl record.

One of the biggest problems is noise. This could be hissing or background noise like the sound of the wind or even someone inadvertently breathing into a microphone. No matter what the source is, that noise is distracting. While it’s difficult to eliminate all of the noise from a digital audio recording, it is possible to clean the file up so that the noise isn’t all that noticeable.

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    Posted by Dwane Arthur  on  12/10  at  03:55 PM

  1. Hello, just wanted to say how much I liked the article on cleaning up music files with Audacity.
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    2. Posted by Howard Payne  on  12/11  at  10:32 AM

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    3. Posted by Dustin Bachrach  on  04/04  at  02:58 PM

  3. Thank you so much for the tutorial. Helped us out a bunch. We had a pretty good microphone, but either the software we were running or the computer was adding some hiss into audio (I’m pretty sure it wasn’t the mic since I tried it before and it didn’t have any hiss). I was worried when I heard the hiss when we were on location, but now I can remove it easily. Thanks again.

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    33. Posted by james  on  04/18  at  09:26 PM

  33. hey, wanted to say thanks for this great info, cleaned up the file i was working on nicely, and now i am cleaning up a bunch of other files too!
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