07 April 2016

Audacity: Keeping the label with the audio selection when you move it

Finally found out how to keep the label with an audio selection you want to copy or cut and move elsewhere. Once you determine the boundaries of the audio you want to move (could be with split marks or just eyeballing it), you have to highlight the adjacent area on the label track first and then move the cursor to include the audio as well. Then you can copy or cut, but not with keyboard shortcuts, only with the Audacity command menu or icons. You can then what you cut or copied to an audio/label track pair of the same type; but in order to paste them both, you have to create a highlighted area that includes the label and the audio track and paste in that. The area doesn't have to be the same size as what you are pasting.

11 January 2016

Using Equalization on P-Pops in Audacity

I just discovered this handy trick for dealing with boomy p-pops. In Audacity, I choose the effect Equalization and within that the pre-set called Bass Cut. Using that on the pop almost always smooths it right out. If there's a brief treble element to the pop, I just cut it out.