It’s to remove any remaining breaths, lip smacks, etc. Then I grab a second of clean room tone again and go through the track and replace any of the pauses between words or sentences with it, adjusting to go back to the original length after copying over it with the second of clean noise.

If not, undo the last step and adjust the compression ratio up or down and repeat. Then Analyze->RMS Calculate to ensure it’s between -20.1db and -19.4 db.6 Floor -24 Noise Gate Falloff 4 Maximum Amplitude. Effect->Compress Dynamics 1.2.6 and Compress Ratio.Then highlight the whole track and do Effect->Noise Reduction and use Noise Reduction 48db Sensitivity 0 db Frequency Smoothing 150 and apply.Select a second of clean, room tone noise and do Effect->Noise Reduction and Get Noise Profile. After recording, I go through and remove any parts that I repeated due to mistakes, then I take these steps for each track.I have the foam sock over the mic to shield breaths, etc. It takes a ton of time! I’m using a ATR2100-USB Audio-Technica mic plugged into my Asus/Windows 10 laptop and recording in a walk-in closet in the central part of my house, using a cardboard box lined with noise-protecting foam to encase the mic.

I just found this forum so I want to run my method by others to see if there’s a way to do this better or more efficiently. I already saw there’s an update, so I’ll apply that. I’m using Audacity 2.1.0 to record an audiobook (fiction).

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