So I have managed to record a sound effect I want to use in a KS level I'm working on. I'm using Audacity, and I am somewhere lower than 'noob' in terms of knowing what I'm doing. (It took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out how to get Audacity to record anything at all.)
I have my recording trimmed to the relevant section, with a little lead-in and lead-out to avoid the overly-abrupt sound-cutting-out thing. I also figured out how to fade in and out the beginning and end of the sample, so that will help with the too-abrupt-transition thing.
The problem is, there's an awful low-pitched buzzing background noise that I suspect came from the mic itself (even though it's supposedly a good mic; we got it as a gift) which almost overpowers the sound I was actually trying to record. I've been able to silence it where it didn't overlap with the sound effect, but I'm having a really hard time isolating the part closest to where my sound begins in order to quiet the buzzing there.
I'd thought I'd be able to zoom way in and identify which sounds were which by their waveforms, but it turns out I am not as good at that as I thought I'd be. It doesn't help that the clip is very short, and the section with the actual sound effect is even shorter.
Any and all suggestions for filtering out or otherwise removing the obnoxious buzzing would be greatly appreciated.