The discussion of hiss removal has been done. Not to upset you but all so far do cut into the signals you want to save.
https://www.google.com/#q=audacity+alternatives finds the alternatives, many are free. My son who does some audio work but never deals with hiss because in his world they bring the actors back in for dubbing or rerecording if the tracks are bad. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubbing_%28filmmaking%29 covers that.
For music I no longer bother but hit the usual itunes, amazon, etc. to get a fresh cut.
Hello Everyone, I am hoping some of you pro guys can please help me with cleaning up a track from a album that I am trying to edit and fade in and out with other tracks to make one continuous track etc.
ok, heres the problem I am having;
All through the track I can here a hissing or microphone sound over the whole 15 minute track, this particular music is a 7 stringed instrument played slowly with pauses in-between, so you here "Everything" I am currently using Audacity to do this project and I can join, blend, splice, fade in and out quite well but the only tool that I know of to clean "noise" up is the noise removal tool.
Tried that, and it works very well, because there is a tiny portion at the very beginning of that track that I can do a noise sample on.
However, here lies the problem or the million dollar question,
when I clean it up using the noise removal tool, it does take out that hissing noise...but... it also seams to shape? or it cuts into the original
track, making it sound terrible! I have tried adjusting all of the settings in the noise removal and it either doesn't take out the hissing or does and it cuts through the whole track.
I have tried googling and I have watched countless tutorials on this with nothing even close to talking about this problem.
The only thing anyone talks about is noise removal, and when they do it it works perfectly!
I have asked all the guys I know and some of them are Dj's others are music teachers who do there own recording/editing etc and between all of us we don't know how to fix this let alone what the industry term for what this is called to be able to fix it? some people have suggested its to do with Frequency or to mess around with the EQ others have suggested buying a really good editing program? but I'm flying blind if I don't know whats this is called?
another suggestion was that it could be the file type that it was saved as that could be messing with it? as I said, we are flying blind and this is my first audio editing project and I have very little knowledge on this..
I am really hoping someone out there says, "Oh I know exactly what that is, and how to fix it"! ha ha Please help...
Thanks a million Guys

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