Cleaning Up Audio Files with Audacity

Notes from ClifNotes, Nov 2007, permalink Audio Editing Tools

Walter S. wrote in with a question ...

Hello Cliff.

I like your excellent newsletter. I am looking for some good sound cleaning software something like Wavclean (no longer available) do you know of any?

Sincerely

Walter

After a quick Google search, I found this great tip from Geeks.com. The best part about this tip is that it uses Audacity, which is one of the best free and open source audio editors.


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Cleaning Up Audio Files with Audacity

By Scott Nesbitt
Sunday, Dec. 10, 2006

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 up the file so that the noise isn't all that noticeable ...

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