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Digital audio editing technology has created many ways to edit audio. While professional studios use specialized equipment such as studio microphones and mixing boards to create sounds of higher quality, basic editing can be done quite easily with just a virtual studio installed on a home computer. The basic features of the sound editing software remain the same.
Things You Should Know
- You can download several free audio editing softwares such as Audacity, Power Sound Editor, and Mp3DirectCut.
- Most sound editors support AIFF, OGG VORBIS, WAV, and MP3 files.
- Sound effects such as Echo, Flanger, and Delay can help repeat or shift the time of notes to make them sound fuller.
Steps
Community Q&A
- QuestionHow can I fix an audio recording that has too much background noise without affecting vocals?
Community AnswerTo do that in Audacity specifically, you have to select a part of the video where you don't speak, then go to "Effect." Next choose "Noise reduction," and click "Get noise profile." Then you use CTRL+A to select all of the recording, and go again into "Noise reduction" and click "OK." Be sure you have selected "Reduce." - QuestionHow can I choose one section of a voice recording file?
Community AnswerIf you want to keep the track you're working on unchanged, you select the section you need to extract, then you go to Edit--> Copy and open a new file in File. Then paste that file in. - QuestionHow do I remove the noise that sounds like somebody is walking on plastic, and how do I fix voices that are too close to the microphone?
Matthew WeilCommunity AnswerYou either have to resize the length of the microphone to reach a point, or you have to record while they are away.
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Tips
- Most programs have a Help menu where you can learn more about the program's features and benefits. Even if there is no Help menu you can usually find many review and short video tutorials online to learn more about the software.Thanks
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