Audacity: Cleaning and Repairing Audio
46mIntermediate2014-11-25
Authors

Garrick Chow
Senior Staff Instructor at LinkedIn Learning
Course details
Want to improve the sounds of your audio recordings, fast? In these short tutorials, Garrick Chow shows how to clean and repair audio using Audacity's built-in tools and effects. He covers removing short clicks and pops and persistent background noise, reducing the effects of clipping and distortion, and improving your overall sound with compression, EQ, and normalization. Plus, get an inside look at a few plugins that can take Audacity (and your audio) even further.
Skills covered
Audio EditingAudacityAudio and MusicOpen SourceDeep Dive (X:Y)
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Welcome
- 02 - What you should know
1. Cleaning and Repairing
- 03 - Steps to take before attempting repairs
- 04 - Fixing clicks and pops
- 05 - Removing unwanted background noise
- 06 - Compressing the dynamic range of a recording
- 07 - Reducing clipping
- 08 - Applying EQ to improve recordings
- 09 - Normalizing audio
- 10 - Installing and exploring plugins
Conclusion
- 11 - Next steps