How To Apply Noise Reduction in Audacity

Reducing the amount of noise in a track is important for clean audio. Now that we have the ability to do it via realtime effects, it can be done non-destructively. But not everyone is on board with using realtime effects yet so I want to take a few minutes to show you how to apply the Noise Reduction effect that comes packaged with Audacity.

Hardware I used in this video (NOTE: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying Amazon purchases).
- 2022 MacBook Pro with an M1 Pro processor and 32 GB memory

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[klchu]

Thanks for this more detailed video. So many of these "reduce noise" videos just cover the basics.

[rsxen]

perfect video. really helped pointing out the DB reduction and why certain number was selected!

[grzegorzbaanda]

Straight to the point, very informative. Thank you!

[RolyPolyGames]

Oh this channel is going to be a treasure trove of helping me with video editing and sound editing for my game. Thank you.

[anujintumurbaatar]

OMG was really sad about the noise and I probably have watched 10 videos but nothing helped but yours was the best one and I really appreciate your content. Thank you so much

[youdontknowme]

Thank you for the useful tip. That helped a lot

[lucaaasfut]

Thank you for the class, I'm watching you from Brazil!

[khrdizc]

Thx!!! This really helped me! I'm so thankful to you, sir

[awaitingthetrumpetcall]

Thank you. I stepped through my recording and followed along.

[oolabob]

I like that you did this video to fully cover one operation. It allowed me to understand all the steps. Too many of the Audacity tutorials run through 10-15 operations too quickly for me to see every step, then I'm lost when I try to do any of those operations.
Really, Audacity is pretty simple, but only if one makes the correct moves in the proper order.

[PenelopeZakou]

Thank you so much for this detailed video! This is the first video that has actually helped me clearly understand the noise reduction settings.

[ChorizoMachine]

Excellent video, very helpful - thank you.

[dagmawilemenih]

This is a really good video and helped me out a lot. Thanks my guy 💯

[AdredenGaming]

Thank you for this video :)
This was not intuitive so it was good to see you do it
Cheers

[tequilaghoul]

you, Sir, are AMAZING! Thank you for this tutorial! subbed!

[fixitmakeit]

Brilliant sir. Was ready to invest in a different mic but this solved my noise issues. Well done great video. Have subscribed.

[EnglishRain]

Thanks a ton for the excellent tutorial

[ClydeRougeAmbient]

Great tutorial, thanks very much. You have a new subscriber.

[YonathanJ]

Thank you so much for the detailed tutorial, this is going to come in very handy for my channel! I made a quick test and the audio quality is incredibly better with just a little messing around with noise reduction, cheers

[Daniel-Judson]

God bless you, so thankful for this tutorial!