Audacity Help - remove audio below certain volume?

[WolfWraith]

It's more just that a noise gate doesn't descriminate types of audio. You set a threshold and everything below that threshold is zeroed out. So, looking at your waveform, there are parts before and after speaking that would meet the criteria.

Honestly, what you're trying to avoid is part of the job of a good editor. Going through and dealing with the minute nonsense in a recording.

Yeah, sometimes I'll go through the audio and silence those bits but sometimes it's more hassle than it's worth, I say that because I think it annoys me more than anyone else who watches my vids xD

 

[Harry Of All Trades]

Try playing around with the hard limiter in Audacity. Set your residue level to 1.0 which will prevent it from reducing waveforms above the dB limit. The wet level setting will reduce the waveforms below the dB limit. Play around and see which wet levels work best. I wouldn't apply this to your whole track. Only to places where you're having issues. You're likely going to have to tweak the settings for each problem area.

 

[WolfWraith]

Try playing around with the hard limiter in Audacity. Set your residue level to 1.0 which will prevent it from reducing waveforms above the dB limit. The wet level setting will reduce the waveforms below the dB limit. Play around and see which wet levels work best. I wouldn't apply this to your whole track. Only to places where you're having issues. You're likely going to have to tweak the settings for each problem area.

Thanks I'll have to look into that 1 too.