Music/audio question

Posted on 01/27/2007 by Meryl Yourish

My niece is applying to a music camp that requires audition tapes/CDs. The audition was recorded onto a computer via a microphone of so-so quality, using Audacity.

Is there anyone out there who is a good hand at cleaning up noise from audio files? There’s a huge background noise I’d like to get rid of.

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3 Responses to Music/audio question

  1. wolfwalker says:
    01/27/2007 at 9:34 pm

    Meryl, have you tried Audacity’s own built-in noise removal function? If not, then it might do the job. Check Help under Noise Removal; it will tell you how to use it. It did a decent job removing tape hiss from a couple of cassettes I copied to my computer.

  2. Meryl Yourish says:
    01/27/2007 at 11:18 pm

    I did, and it didn’t do very much. However, a friend of mine who has a professional audio editing program did a great job.

    Thanks, Tom.

  3. A Steve says:
    01/28/2007 at 2:38 pm

    Yeah, I’m actually not that impressed with Audacity’s noise removal capabilities. I think I’m better with my old shareware copy of CoolEdit ’96.

    So it’s taken care of? Cool.

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