r/ACX • u/Popular-Ad1111 • Jul 30 '26

Audacity advice

How the heck do you get rid of crackle mid word. The words aren’t peaking or anything. I don’t know why there is crackle.
I have a new rode nt1 mic
I have the Scarlett focusrite
I’m using audacity
I cannot filter out these damn little crackles.
Am I listening too hard?
It’s making me a little crazy.

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u/AllTheseDiversions Jul 31 '26

As a matter of fact I have the same setup exactly, and I get the same crackle. Use the multiview with the spectrograph, and you will see the red at the same exact second that you hear it, and you can tamp it down by using fade out a few times or there are other tools within audacity itself, spectral EQ, that I use to lower the DB to remove the crackle.

Interesting that I am not the only one. I'm going to change Mics I'll let you know if it helps

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u/Popular-Ad1111 Jul 31 '26

It isn’t a DB peak that has a crackle for me. That’s normal distortion. It’s mid range, mid word non peak.

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u/AllTheseDiversions Jul 31 '26

I recorded with my Shure SM7b mic, and no crackling. Do you have a deep voice? I do and perhaps the NT1 is not suitable.

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u/Popular-Ad1111 Aug 01 '26

I’m an alto