You can also reuse this set up now as a preset! Exporting Audio Then click OK and the highlighted bits of your audio should fix themselves. Save this set up as something you will easily remember, like Plosive Fixer. Then just leave the rest of the sliders as they are.
Set the first 4 sliders on this to -20dB, then put the next 8 sliders up by -2dB each until just past 200Hz. Then click Graphic EQ, and this should bring up some sliders so you can adjust the wavelength manually.
You should see a flat across 0dB, but if you don’t, just click the Flatten button. Highlight your plosives, then go to Effects and Equalization. You can usually see these pretty easily on your waveform, by looking for short, large spikes in the wave. When your microphone is angled below your mouth, your recording will have some pretty breathy, nasty popping noises in it whenever you say any words with P’s in them. Then just adjust the Threshold (-14dB) and Noise Floor (-40dB), and preview the audio and keep making adjustments until everything sounds like it’s on the same level. Highlight the whole podcast episode, and then go to Effects, then Compressor. You can bring the volume closer together to level it out. Enter a dB maximum amplitude you want to set as the limit for your audio, and preview the changes.Įxtreme peaks and dips in the waveform can sound very harsh on the ears in comparison to the rest of the audio, but this can be fixed. Instead, if your audio is too loud, again, you can select the audio that’s too loud, then go to Effects and Normalise. Boost audio levels with amplify and normalise. Click Preview to listen to the changes and keep modifying the dB level until it’s at a decent level.
Here you can either adjust the slider, or type in a dB number. If your audio is too quiet, select the portion of your track or the whole thing, and then go to Effects and then Amplify. If your audio is too quiet or too loud, you can adjust that by amplifying or normalising it. These fades should only last for a few seconds each, but don’t make them too short as they can turn out a bit abrupt. Then highlight the end of your podcast episode and go to Effects and then Fade Out.įade audio in or out for smoother transitions. Highlight the start of your podcast episode, then click Effects and then Fade In. You may need to go back and adjust some of the settings further to remove the background noise completely.įades are a nice way to transition in and out of your show, and it just makes it sound that bit more professional. Play some of your file through to see the changes that the noise reduction has made. Click Effects and Noise Reduction again, then adjust the Noise Reduction (dB) to 5, Sensitivity to 0.50, and Frequency Smooth (Bands) to 1. Then, go back to the whole audio file and highlight it all. Set a noise profile to make noise reduction easier. This captures the print of the highlighted noise, ready to remove it. Then click Effects at the top, then Noise Reduction, and then select Get Noise Profile. To remove this background hum, just highlight a section of the background noise. Remove unwanted noises in the background.
You can spot these on the waveform as constant low waves, if you can’t quite see them, you can use the +magnifying glass to zoom in. Sometimes microphones can pick up the audio from the room you record in, or some background static which comes out as a low-level humming noise. Cutting AudioĬut out any silences or filler words, like “umms” and “errs”, then you can just click and drag to highlight the audio you want to cut, then hit the delete key on your keyboard. Choose the audio file you want to import into Audacity, we would recommend sticking with using WAV or AIFF formats as these preserve sound quality the best. Just click File, at the top, then Import, and Audio. If you’ve already recorded your audio, you can easily import into Audacity to edit podcast audio. Recording using Audacity is super easy! Make sure your audio interface is selected in the audio preferences drop-down list, and then double-check your levels by clicking on the levels bar at the top to start monitoring. As long as your levels are between -9db and -18db, you’re good to go! Click the record button once you’re ready to get going! Record audio at the click of a button.