 So I'm gonna do a quick video with Audacity very specifically because I've been asked this before is how I edit the podcast with it And there's really only two functions I use for editing the podcast There's normalized and I use that sometimes if there's a discrepancy in the audio where one of the people in the podcast Wasn't talking as loud and the other one was or some people who get I'm gonna say very Excitable people and they have no voice modulation. So instead of saying steady They sometimes would peak the meters and that's when you can just normalize So I'm not gonna really play normalize and it's pretty straightforward to apply on here But the noise removal is something I wish even more people would do with their podcast So I want to make this quick video to send to some of them It's just important to get all the little noises out especially background noise for some reason a studio Apparently when we recorded the other day and this happens from time to time You get a little bit of a hum a hiss or something that causes the background noise That's persistent and as someone who consumes a lot of podcasts myself I'm always trying to think about the audio things that may bother me another podcast because I'm assuming they bother other people So I'm gonna jump in here 23 Fresh looks You may better hear that but there's a very in this little segment right here a very little bit of a hum And you can see it's moving the meter just a little bit. So there's a really slight hum Now what we're gonna do is show you how to remove that hum across the entire TV Not just this little section, but of course the whole video. So we go to effects We're gonna go to noise reduction And I have this already selected so I selected an empty spot that only has the hum happens easy to find this one It's at the beginning. So we're gonna generate the profile now Control a or I can go to here to edit select all now. We're actually going to apply it Now the more noise reduction you apply the more it can mess with the audio a bit much And you don't want to mess up the audio. You don't want to make reduce the quality at the sacrifice So we're gonna start with these numbers being very low We're gonna go 14 for here and now we can actually preview that noise reduction The Sunday, I'm actually going to let it actually let's preview it Just do this section here to 23 Fresh looks and you can see the meter dropping down all the way. I can go further Do 23 Fresh looks and it's gone really good there. So probably sevens enough on That's and generally it's just the how many frequency smoothings and the sensitivity to the noise that I'm adjusting to 23 Fresh looks That just about killed it go up a little bit more and this is also a mound of reduction So you just keep sliding ease up and there's not some science to it. You do it until you go Okay, the audio sounds good But it doesn't what technically there's a science to it. I don't know the science to it I'm just saying how I fix it. I keep sliding these up making sure I do not damage the integrity of the audio The audio so sounds good to the ear But it doesn't It does kill the noise. So it's previewed again 23 Fresh looks that's gone. I hear Tony's voice is still as clear I'm not gonna hit. Okay. We're just going to Cancel this because now I want to select the entirety of it. Then we go back to effects We're gonna noise reduction And I had this at what 17 5.5 and 7 I hit okay And through the magic of Time lapse I will speed this up real quick Okay, and it's done rendering. So now you can even see that it's no longer little blips on there So if we hit play right there fresh looks Complete silence hums gone and let's play a little bit of more of the audio and this is episode 2 23 Fresh looks Tony's voice sounds perfectly fine. There's no more in there and we're done Now the one thing to note is not saving the file is When you save it it saves it in the audacity project format because you can have a lot of different tracks in audacity So when i'm done with these I just go to export the audio You can do the export selected audio or export audio and then i'm going to give it the entire name Now something I did know it sometimes gives it this uh A iff extension so usually just go and change that to the uh ag extension like Just type in the name and the ag and this was our episode 2 23 and um Save in full quality format And away we go. It's all done. It's ready to export and upload So just want to give that quick tutorial though on noise reduction. That's why I said it's usually important Uh, well, at least it is to me I don't like any types of hums if you listen to a lot of podcasts I could do in the car You're like man, I wish they would have gotten rid of that hum That's as easy as it is to get rid of the hum in audacity You just find a small section of the audio where you can isolate it Generate a noise profile keep previewing the profile until you got the numbers where you want them sliding them all up And then select all apply that same numbers to the entirety of it and done Export the audio back and you now have a nice clean audio file. Thanks for watching. If you like to count in here Like and subscribe