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by AStarr
Fri Jan 15, 2016 9:46 pm
Forum: macOS
Topic: Quality compromised when export as .wav and re-import?
Replies: 2
Views: 222

Quality compromised when export as .wav and re-import?

Aud 2.0.6 .dmg on Mc 10.6.8 and 2.11 .dmg on a Mac 10.8 Is there a potential quality problem if I do some editing work (no effects) on an aud project, export as a .wav, and then reimport that wav to audacity to do some more work on it? .Wavs are MUCH smaller than the aup/data files for transferring ...
by AStarr
Thu Nov 19, 2015 12:06 am
Forum: macOS
Topic: Updated mastering chain
Replies: 4
Views: 521

Re: Updated mastering chain

Yes, I have Time Machine.

Did you forget about me here?
by AStarr
Sun Oct 25, 2015 2:01 pm
Forum: macOS
Topic: Updated mastering chain
Replies: 4
Views: 521

Updated mastering chain

Using: Audacity 2.0.6 on Mac OsX 10.6.8, dmg Equipment: Tascam DR-05, pop filter I asked for help here before with a sound sample http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=83707 and Koz gave me a mastering path to make it pass acx specs. Two dozen books later, I'm still using the same ...
by AStarr
Fri Jun 19, 2015 9:01 pm
Forum: macOS
Topic: Swap a selection of audio between tracks [SOLVED]
Replies: 7
Views: 799

Re: Swap a selection of audio between tracks [SOLVED]

Whoohoo! Thanks for your help.
by AStarr
Fri Jun 05, 2015 6:56 pm
Forum: macOS
Topic: Swap a selection of audio between tracks [SOLVED]
Replies: 7
Views: 799

Re: Swap a selection of audio between tracks

None of the above. I don't want to gate. My noise floor is excellent, and I always pass. No matter how quiet the recording, it is necessary to edit out audible breaths. Even Audible editors do it by cut and paste using clean room tone. Users of other programs can do it with a room tone track, but Au...
by AStarr
Fri Jun 05, 2015 5:26 pm
Forum: macOS
Topic: Swap a selection of audio between tracks [SOLVED]
Replies: 7
Views: 799

Re: Swap a selection of audio between tracks

Related: Is there a way to tell Audacity what "silence" is? Give it some room tone to sample, or use as silence, and THEN, the silence generator would be real useful.
by AStarr
Fri Jun 05, 2015 5:22 pm
Forum: macOS
Topic: Swap a selection of audio between tracks [SOLVED]
Replies: 7
Views: 799

Swap a selection of audio between tracks [SOLVED]

Audacity 2.0.6, mac 10.6.8, dmg Is there a quick way to replace the audio in one track with the audio in another track, or swap the audio between the two? In this case, I was playing with a looped room tone track ("silence"), and my audio track. Rather than cut and paste (requiring mouse p...
by AStarr
Sun Feb 22, 2015 2:07 am
Forum: Audiobook Production
Topic: Wanted: mastering chain for meeting ACX Guidelines
Replies: 64
Views: 9632

Re: Wanted: mastering chain for meeting ACX Guidelines

How big are the memory chips you hand-carry between the recorder and the computer? Haha. 4 gig. It holds nearly a days work in mono, and a couple hours in stereo. When I grasped the acx guidelines, I set the recorder accordingly; dawned on me later that I could output at that later, record at highe...
by AStarr
Sun Feb 22, 2015 1:23 am
Forum: Audiobook Production
Topic: Wanted: mastering chain for meeting ACX Guidelines
Replies: 64
Views: 9632

Re: Wanted: mastering chain for meeting ACX Guidelines

kozikowski wrote:Compression:
-20dB
-40dB
3:1
0.2 sec
1 sec.
OK.
Based on Peaks checked, like you mentioned before?