Removing a Spike from an Audio Event?

[solarblast]

I'm trying to use a normalize on an audio event. It has a spike from the sound of a tennis shoe on a gym court. I'm told that there may be a de-andre method that might take it out. I have no info about it, and have looked at Help and the manual. If not that, is there some way to lower the spike by itself. Is there a way to normalize the track (from the header) or even get some idea where the high peaks are in the track?

Vegas 6.0

[solarblast]

As it turns out, de-andre is short (a regionalism, I think) for "de-normalize and re-normalize". That appears to be just plain normalize, as far as I can tell.

An easy way to avoid the influence of the spike in normalizing is to use an envelope to reduce the height of the spike.

[solarblast]

Oh, for the record, normalize is done by event and the mechanism for using it is a drop-down menu from the audio track. If it's not in the menu proper, it's under properties there, where a recalculate button is available too.

[SingSing]

Use a low pass filter, or dynamic range limiter.

[solarblast]

I've been away for several days, but I don't see a LP filter available in Vegas 6, or dynamic range.

My idea of changing the envelope, using 3 points, doesn't work either. Applying Normalize changes nothing. In the Properties+Recalc it shows Gain as 2.1 Db. That value doesn't want to change. There a way to change the max Norm value on the Preferences Audio Tab. It shows -0.1. That seems odd to me. I would have expected something larger.

[olyteddy]

Or using Audacity you can do this: http://club.cdfreaks.com/2174101-post8.html