AudaCity Static removal?

[Jangalomph]

Hello, i was using audacity to record songs, quality is great, but it has static in it. Any way to remove all the crackles and staticish sounds?

[ghost12332]

....Your using Audacity?

Any crackles, snaps, and pops is usually a result of way to much gain, or your cables getting tripped up, etc. By the time you get to the mixing phase, you just have to cut out any crackly pops (or EQ em off if possible). Most anti-pop filters don't work.

Essentially, it was started in the recording phase due to your amateur audio skills

[vcool]

Noise Removal?

It will make some of the sound sound a bit distorted, but you'll have less noise/

Select several seconds of pure noise, click Effects/Noise Removal, click "Get Noise Profile". It will quite literally get the noise profile, or in other words, it'll detect what the waveform of the nopise part is and then try to remove it fro the entire recording. Once you clicked the button, select the entire track, go to Effects/Noise Removal again and simply click OK. You can mess with the settings to get what you really want but usually the default settings are good enough,

[Acheron]

....Your using Audacity?

Any crackles, snaps, and pops is usually a result of way to much gain, or your cables getting tripped up, etc. By the time you get to the mixing phase, you just have to cut out any crackly pops (or EQ em off if possible). Most anti-pop filters don't work.

Essentially, it was started in the recording phase due to your amateur audio skills

Sure paid programs are better but Audacity is good free alternative, not everyone has the money to buy software. Especially with them reaching into the several hundreds of dollars. Granted there are some cheap programs out there that do the trick, not many people know of them. I've got a copy of it installed on my computer, there's a few things in it that I actually like more than my paid for programs. Especially the tempo/pitch/speed changer. Works great.

The reasons for any kind of unwanted noise are numerous, there are several factors that can come into play. It really depends on what you're using, I mean if you DI straight into an onboard soundcard for example (There was a time when I did this.. but I was quite good with the EQing and got some favourable results from it) then you're gonna have a lot of static in the recording, especially if you have a noisy computer. Bloody hell, if you use a great audio interface you can still get static if you have a noisy computer.

For a quick fix, vcool hit it on the head. Noise removal will get rid of most static, though it will sacrifice some of the overall quality and pops and crackles will be a little bit harder to get completely out without losing a lot of the quality.

I'd suggest looking at your setup, whatever it is, if you're experiencing noise then it's because of your equipment. If you've got a few pieces of equipment in your chain, I'd suggest unplugging all of them and connecting each piece (if you can) directly to the computer and see if you still get any noise. So plugging your microphone straight into the audio interface rather than through a mixer/preamp/whatever. Check every piece and several combinations of them and soon enough you'll find your problem. Whether it be computer, audio interface, microphone, whatever.

Also if you are just starting out or whatever, there's a few programs that might be a tad more useful than Audacity. KRISTAL and LMMS are alright from what I've heard, both free as well. There's plenty of programs out there which are very cheap as well, Zynewave Podium is a big one there.

[ghost12332]

I talked to him. Hes recording directly off his soundcard from youtube. He doesn't believe me when I tell him how many crackles, pops, and hisses that will cause.

[Jangalomph]

Even if i record of of myspace's music. it still does it.

[Acheron]

Wait what do you mean from youtube? Either way, yeah unless you know what you're doing (and even then it won't come out too hot) DI straight into a soundcard, well if it's onboard, just won't cut it.

In light of this, I will simply supply you a link:
You have much to learn

[Habboi]

Erm. Like he says. He's recording music off YouTube. You know? Video website where people upload music videos for example.

[Acheron]

Erm. Like he says. He's recording music off YouTube. You know? Video website where people upload music videos for example.

And what did I say to warrant your lovely attitude? It was a simple question, the way it was worded just confused me, that's all. No need to be a smart ass.

I was under the impression of recording songs as in the actual tracking and mixing of instruments, not recording off of YouTube. The thought never even occured to me since you can just go into your cache folder and copy the .flv of the video.

[joe_rogers_11155]

I thought there was a program out there that would record sounds that your computer "plays" in the same way Microsoft Document Writer will "print" a document into a file. That way, there's no background noise from your environment, no wires for the sound to travel through. Isn't there something like that?

[vcool]

Yes, recording from the mixer setting in the sound panel. Double click on the speaker icon on your toolbar, go to Parameters->Properties and you'll have a window where you can select which sound outputs/inputs you have. Select your playback module from the list. Usually it is the default one shown anyway. In a textbox below you'll see a list of checks. Check "Mixer" or on some mobos it's called "What-u-hear" (In russian it's called Synthesizer, or "Cинтезатор") or "Stereo Mixer". Click OK and now in your window with the volume sliders you'll see a new column addded for sythesizer. Add/subtract volume and open Audacity. Click record, open YouTube and play the video.

Voila, the recording should be identical to YouTube's.

Last time I did this was a long time ago, and I probably made a crucial mistake. I can't remember with 100% certainty whether you have to select your default playback output device or the input device. Both have the "Mixer" entry and I am not sure which one you have to enable. You can enable both, since one of them won't really do anything.

[tonystockert]

goldwave's noise reduction is really good.