I am here to ask questions is all - not sell Male Enhancement devices or Life Insurance (not sure where that came from or what made you think of that?).
You don’t see all the people trying to sell stuff on the forum. No, thanks. I don’t need SAP Development training in Mumbai. We didn’t used to be fully moderated, but that proved unworkable. We got overwhelmed.
what is my operating system
Windows? Which one? I’m typing on a Mac, so if there are computer specific comments needed, I may need to wait for help.
I collected a number of handy documents and links at the top of:
http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/audacity.html
I’ll pick them out and describe them as needed. The top bunch are from ACX and related companies. Those are their training videos and links.
I generated a format to use so you can submit test sound clips on the forum in such a way that we can get the most use from them.
http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/TestClip/Record_A_Clip.html
The forum will not allow you to post pages and pages of spoken word. Sorry, it just doesn’t. Do you have a service such as DropBox which will let you post longer pieces? Close to the end of testing we may need that. Testing ten second clips is nice, but sometimes we may need to examine a whole chapter or longer work.
Do not make a very newbie mistake of reading a whole book over months and only then submitting it for ACX testing. Chances are terrific you will be reading it all again at better quality. The elves regard the phrase “Clean Up” as code for “unrecoverable presentation.” Like the posting: “Can you help me clean up…”
You’re dead.
So if you already have a recording environment (studio) set up, prepare a test clip according to that recipe and post it here. Do Not Help Us.
Post clean, unprocessed work.
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Download:
http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/Documents/acx-check.ny.zip
Unzip acx-check.ny and copy it to the Audacity plugins folder. Restart Audacity.
Open any voice work (like the one you just made). Select the whole thing by clicking just above the MUTE button.
Analyze > ACX Check.
That will give you a panel with lots of technical specifications and the three you really need: Peak, RMS (loudness) and Noise.
It will also give you a metaphorical gold star on the bottom if you passed. That’s not likely, not because you led an impure life, but just that very few home recordings pass.
Rather than plow on, I think I’m going to stop there. If you get stuck, post where and at what step. Also note if something doesn’t work right. You did install Audacity 2.1.0, right? Some of our tools don’t work as well in earlier versions.
Koz