
Noise Reduction – It is good practice when recording audio to allow a 10-20 second segment of silence. It also equalizes the waveform between left and right channels. Normalize – Sets the peak amplitude to a range that avoids clipping (jargon term for a volume peak that is too loud for the file). Compressor – Reduces the dynamic range of a recording which will increase the gain (jargon term for volume) to an ideal level throughout the recording. Under the pull down menu for Effect, select in this order, filter one at a time: When I edit a podcast, the first thing I do is run several filters in sequence. Next to the speaker icon, (center), is the sound meter which displays the sound on playback measured in decibels. Spyglass + (Zoom in) Spyglass – (Zoom out). Selection tool (looks like an I with bar on top and bottom). Icons above the waveform to note, left to right:. Pull down menus we will be using: File, Edit, Tracks, Effect. It will “paint” the waveform, in blue, along the timeline. File>Open>select recorded audio file to edit from folder on your computer. If you haven’t already, download and install Audacity. Adding effects like fade-ins, fade-outs and auto-ducking music. Using filters and noise reduction to improve audio listenability. Raising or lowering the gain (audio) to YouTube/CD levels. Loading recorded audio for sound improvement:.
Scope of this guide: Using the free audio editing software, Audacity, to edit recorded podcast audio. What happened when you restarted Audacity? 2.0.x Audacity should offer to recover the recording from the AUTOSAVE file. In practice you can’t feed the 1.2 utility more than 1 GB of data, so no more than four “d” folders. If you are on an Intel Mac you need the Intel version of the 1.2 Recovery utility.
What version of Audacity are you using and what version of OS X? See the pink panel at the top of this page. I’ve gone through the process of copying and then renaming the file sequentially (as suggested here: ) but when I run them through the Audacity Recovery Utility ( ) I get this error about 40 files into the process (see attachment). aup but I did find all of the corresponding. I am trying to rescue a podcast recording that was mistakenly recorded while Audacity was still in the.