Audacity Editting

The Audacity DAW is a little different to my ProTools DAW, but they all have basically the same tools. With Audacity, when you cut a section out, it automatically pastes itself back together. If the edited section still has a problem, you can undo and then try a different approach.

Here is a sample below highlighting area which needs to be edited/cut out.

Ready to edit by scissor tool in tool menu.

Picture below shows that it has automatically pasted itself back together again

Once I have edited the tracks to the best I can, I then clean up between the tracks so the starts and finishes are noise free. By using the noise reduction effect (which can be accessed via a dropdown box), I can clean up a lot of the small background noises. If the noise reduction effect process hasn't eliminated all the background noises, then I will cut those areas out with the scissor tool.

Below are some examples

Track noise between the two songs.

Using noise reduction effect.

Using scissor tool to cut out the remaining noises.