https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/selection_toolbar.html

yes

highlight the parts you want to trim and press delete

I've recently started using audacity with a Sennheiser profile USB mic and a pretty quiet room to record audio narrations up to an hour long per session. My workflow is :

1. Noise reduction (not too much, sample a few seconds of "silent" recording first and then apply only once)

2. EQ. This one takes a bit of trial and error as every persons voice is different so you might have to just see what sounds best.

3. Normalise (I just use the default level of -1db)

4. I then apply noise gate and then listen through and remove any clicks or pops. This takes the longest amount of time.

5. Final step before exporting, I do Loudness Normalisation to -16db to -19db depending on thr recording itself.

Its quite a few steps but thats what I find yields me the best results.

But also if anybody else has any feedback or tips on my workflow that would be great.

Try running a real time EQ plugin. Use a super narrow bandwidth with the level boosted fairly high. Start at one end of the frequency spectrum and slowly sweep the bandwidth to the opposite end of the spectrum. Listen for areas where the offensive sounds/background noise seems to get louder. Once you find the worst area, turn the boost way down. This isn't a great method to rely on, but in certain situations it can be helpful.

I don't know if this will help with your specific problem and I'm sure I'm not explaining it properly, but if you want to look into it try searching YouTube for videos on "EQ sweeping" or "Seek and Destroy EQ technique".

Noise reduction is a destructive process. So less is more.

The best place to invest time and money is to learn how to fix your audio before you even hit the record button.

That means identifying sources of noise and figuring out what you can do to reduce or eliminate them. Another thing that beginners miss is how to treat your recording space with “broadband” sound absorption. I like to say that I’d rather use $100 mic in a properly treated room than a $5000 mic in a closet.

If your recording is good, then you don’t have to do much post production at all.

That being said, Izotope RX has a bunch of great audio restoration tools for cleaning up your audio.

Supertone Clear is a nice plugin for eliminating general background noise.

Accentize has a bunch of noise and reverb removal plugins for professionals. They are used in TV and Film a lot.

With any kind of noise reduction I would do a little at a time. If I wanted to reduce noise by 12 db. I would do 3 passes of 4 db instead of one at 12 db.

The main thing you have to do is find and remove the sources of noise.

Treat the room, even if you have to use couch cushions, mattresses and moving blankets. Or move your mic into a more sound isolated space, like a closet full of clothes in the center of the house.

This is assuming your mic and interface are of good enough quality that they're not introducing noise. If that's not the case, replace them with something better.

Once you do those two things you'll be able to use much less aggressive noise reduction settings and it won't alter the sound of your voice nearly as much.

Lots of good advice here. I do not like Audacity's Noise Reduction in general. If it's used lightly it can be ok, but if you need a lot of noise reduction, it really harms the sound quality.

So first reduce the noise generated by your gear (expensive). Then reduce the noise heard by your gear (inexpensive). Then use as little noise reduction as possible.

I have had much better experience with Audition's noise reduction but I've left Adobe on non technical principals and can't recomend, but it suggests there may be other better plugins out there to explore.

Try editing it on the Fairlight page, you will have finer steps. It seems you are trying to edit in sub frame resolution anyway

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No idea why but whenever I try to trim video on the cut page for this project, the audio waveform will change as soon as I start to trim. I rely on the visual information to cut quickly, so this is incredibly annoying.

Any idea what might be causing this?

Did you export the Audacity file to MP3 after you made the cut?

There are various ways to do it in audacity but the best way is to use the labels function and export all the selected pieces in one go.

Why do you have to convert to Mp3 after Quicktime already does it for you?

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But do it with Audacity. It's free and it's meant for such purposes.

If you're a little tech savy, I could recommend cutting it in terminal with ffmpeg.

GarageBand? It's free

I Used to Be Detect many-times Just How Can I Immediately Cut mp3 Sound Record but Dont Perform it Readily, last time find it trim an mp3

To select a region in all tracks:

1. Select the region in on (or more) tracks.
2. Press "Ctrl + Shift + K" (or from the "Select" menu, go to "Tracks", then "In all tracks".)

Click on ONE track

to see where silence is located and how long

https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/silence_finder_setting_parameters.html

then

https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/truncate_silence.html

then repeat all other tracks

>"convert flac/wav to mp3".

Need to have 1 or 2dB headroom to avoid clipping when converting to mp3.

This sometimes happens if you're using browser extensions to 'convert' a youtube video into .wav or .mp3 and then try to edit it in a third party program for whatever reason.

I don't think the file is normalized to 0db at all. There is a good chance that when you're importing the file, that's just what audacity sees. Since .flac or .wav can go over 0dBFS without clipping it's probably got nothing to do with audacity.

Try doing the same thing with another program like LMMS or Cubase and see if you get the same result. Then you'll know for sure. But there is no way to fix that.