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Re:Audacity 3.4 – New Musical Features by crazygringo on Thursday November 02, 2023 @10:03PM (#38123464)
Have there been any improvements in noise reduction?

That's what's always kept me from using Audacity in the past. I like the interface and operations and everything, but cleaning up audio (removing room tone mostly) has always been the first step in my workflow, and its built-in noise reduction has just been unusably terrible compared to basic commercial tools.

Or is there a common plugin people use with it that I've never known about?

Re:Audacity 3.4 – New Musical Features by lotsofpizza on Friday November 03, 2023 @01:57AM (#38125066)
Typically a noise reduction plugin installed with the DAW by default isn’t going to be amazing. People usually install their own preferred plugins when using a DAW. If you look up noise reduction VSTs you will get lots of results for paid and free plugins compatible with Audactiy. I don’t have a recommendation but googling “reddit cheap noise reduction vst” came up with a lot of viable recommendations.
Re:Audacity 3.4 – New Musical Features by eliasmacpherson on Friday November 03, 2023 @02:29AM (#38125212)
if you were on Windows you could possibly do something to get this into Audacity:

http://reaper.fm/reaplugs/

https://github.com/nbickford/REAPERDenoiser