Need Help with Editing Audio for a Video

[Kernel Kraken]

I'm working on turning the Roblox OOF sound effect into the Tripod horn from the 2005 adaptation of The War of The Worlds.

Here's the original:

 

And here's mine so far:

 

You can probably hear the loud clicks between my poorly spliced clips. Anyone know how to get rid of those? Any constructive criticism would be very welcome, too. It doesn't sound all that great and I can't figure out what to do to make it better.

Edited May 26, 2020 by Kernel Kraken

[cubinator]

The clicks happen when the sound wave switches abruptly to a new position. You might be able to minimize it by trimming the waveform at the small scale. Otherwise, I think there are functions in Audacity to filter out some of that stuff.

[Superfluous J]

3 hours ago, cubinator said:

You might be able to minimize it by trimming the waveform at the small scale.

I've done this hundreds of times and it works like a charm.

If you zoom in enough in Audacity you can see the "pixels" of the waveform. Just cut off the minimum amount you need to in order to not have a bug jump in the line anywhere.

Edited May 27, 2020 by Superfluous J
Hey Swype: just a heads up if the letter is on its own it's pretty much always going to be 'a', not 's'

[HansonKerman]

but why not turn “oof” into the siren head noise

[adsii1970]

You can "blur" the noise. Dampen it so it's not as loud as the rest of the wave around it.