Jerry Cole wrote:95delta98,
I'm really curious of where you used the "wah wah".
Jerry
Good question and I should have been more clear in my answer to my own post.
I isolated the bad word (as experienced Audacity users know, you can highlight a selection, zoom to just that selection, and then incrementally by trial and error, drag the start and end of the selection until you have perfectly isolated whatever it is you're chasing).
I then played around with most of the effects on the isolated word. Although there might have been better options available, after 20 minutes of playing around, I found the wah-wah sound did the job great. Maybe it was just the right thing for my situation, but it made the word indiscernible, yet kept the song's sound and rhythm intact. We're talking about a half-second of sound by the way.
This was by the way on the Matchbox 20 lyrics:
I sat down on the street, took a look at myself
said where you going man you know the world is headed for hell
and for a slide show being done for a Cub Scout banquet. Now obviously, the 20% of the people who know the song or are following the lyrics will know what's there, and maybe one or two of them might take offense if the word were left intact. But I managed to remove it so that it's not there to offend anyone who might take offense, and the moment just passes by unnoticeable by anyone who's not looking for the word.