Bleeping out cursing

Just had a quick question. I run a podcast about video games and I wanted to bleep out some tiny cursing that happens in the show, but I'm not sure the easiest way to go about it. I use a combination of Soundtrack Pro and Garage Band to produce the podcasts. Is there an easy way to bleep something out in one of those programs?

I ran into the same problem recently. I'm using GarageBand 3 so I don't have the fancy effects and transitions that are probably in Soundrack Pro. I also didn't have an easily found sample of a simple tone, and my podcast is allowed to have some "humor". So here's what I did:
- found a funny sound from the Apple Loop Library, like the dog barking or sheep baying
- drop in the loop in a new track
- edit the volume envelope on the offensive word and lower it to zero
All in all, I found it not too "simple", but it worked.
In retrospect I wished I could just drop in a loop (preferably of a 1kHz tone) right on top of the offending word. Oh, and I want it to match the average volume level of the sample it's replacing.
I'd love to hear if STP has an easier way to do this. Mostly because I want more reasons to buy Soundtrack Pro
Bill Burns
producer of the SecurityHype podcast and blog

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