If you have a recording with especially harsh consonant sounds, you’ll see a significant improvement by using audio effects like DeEsser to make the sound of your recording more pleasing.

Apply Audio Effects

1. Open an an audio recording in Audiate.
2. Click the Properties button.
   
3. Click the + icon to view the available audio effects.
   
4. In the Effects section, click to apply the desired effect. To review the applied effect, click the Play button.
   

   Tip: Remove Noise first

   The Remove Noise effect helps improve the audio quality for most recordings. For the best result, apply Remove Noise to most recordings before applying other effects.

5. To customize the effect, edit the properties. The changes are immediately applied to the audio.
   
6. To save a preset of the effect with customized properties, click the Presets dropdown and select Save Preset.
7. To apply another effect, click the + icon. To learn more about each audio effect, see Improve Audio with Effects.
   

   Note: To disable an applied effect and keep its properties settings, click the on/off toggle in the properties panel for the effect.