Thank you so much for submitting again -indeed the noise is gone! You don't have to submit again -I now have a fairly good idea. One thing to point out though: look at the sound graph here in your post. See all those spots where the lines reach the top and the bottom, making a sort of "flat ceiling" and "flat floor"? Those are the parts of your voice that were too loud for the software to capture, and unfortunately got lost. I'm no audio expert, but in Audacity you can adjust the volume of your mic to make sure that no matter how loud you get, the lines never exceed the top and bottom boundaries. Results in better sound! In any case, thank you again -super quality submission.