In Audacity click on ‘effects’ then ‘Normalize’ to achieve a higher level of sound. This will sound smoother allowing for a better quality sound. If there is clipping, use the ‘fade in’ tool to reduce the clipping sound. Finally, double check and play the sound from the beginning to see if there’s any clipping.Hit delete on the keyboard and the audio should disappear.Zoom in to get the selection as close to the the live audio as possible.Use the cursor to select dead sound where there’s not any audio at the beginning of the track.Note: you might not need to do this trick if the recording device or settings trigger the recording when there’s audio playing. I’d say this is more specific to the beginning of a DJ mix to make sure when a listener clicks play on your mix that the beginning of the mix, the first track, plays instantly without delay.

This is a great opportunity to simply tighten up your DJ mix to be better for listeners to start your DJ mix, whether it be online using Mixcloud for example. See light blue area selected at the end of a mix, delete the dead sound.Īt the beginning and end of each DJ mix there might be dead sound or also known as no signal.

Mixing in audacity