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Getting started with Audacity 1.3

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Getting started with Audacity 1.3

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Overview of this book

Using the Audacity software as the starting off point, we discuss what the software is, what it can do, how you can use it, and where you go to get started installing it. All of this information is grounded in some basic audio editing terminology and background for those that aren't so technology inclined.Then we'll start digging into a sample project! You'll learn about how to set up a project, create a voice track, record an interview with Skype, and basic audio editing techniques. All of this done in an easy to follow, task based approach with lots of examples. Here, we plan to go a step further, we teach how to wrap all of these steps together and create a podcast that can be posted on your own website or blog.There's always more you can do with Audacity! The last portion of the book is dedicated to just that - discussing more advanced editing and mixing techniques, using affects, adding music, adding additional plug-ins to the software. All still incorporating examples and easy to follow tasks you can try on your own audio projects.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Getting started with Audacity 1.3
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
9
Giving Your Audio Some Depth: Applying Effects
Toolbar, Menu, and Keyboard Shortcut Reference
Glossary of Terms
Index

Removing noise


Noise in audio editing refers to hisses and hums heard on your audio track—not interruptions like a dog barking, or an unwanted voice or word. An example of when we want to use the noise remover filter is where we want to reduce a hissing sound that you can hear throughout your entire recording.

Noise removal as a whole can be very complicated to explain. But in very simple terms, this filter analyzes your audio track after you tell it what you consider "noise" in comparison to all the other sounds. If the "noise" is "heard" the filter silences it in the track without affecting any other sounds. Thus, as implied, noise removal is a two-step process. Let's learn how to do it.

Setting up the noise profile

Setting up the noise profile is the first of two steps for removing noise from your audio track sample project. In this step, you tell Audacity what to consider as noise. We'll do that by selecting a portion of the audio that is silent except for the noise. This can be at the...