Audacity Forum

Bonnie, you're in good hands. If you'd like to compare notes on submitting to ACX (which I'm about to do), please let me know. Meantime, I have a quick, relevant question for Koz. Select the whole clip by clicking just above MUTE. Analyze > ACX Check > Wait. Does one use the ACX Check on the Audacit...

I've emailed Koz, but FYI everybody, I finished recording, editing, and mastering, and have placed the book here. I have a few beta listeners going over it this week, but in the meantime, if any experts would be willing to spot-check and make sure I'll pass ACX muster, I appreciate it!

I've been playing with the de-esser, and my untrained ear can't tell the difference before and after processing. (Contemplating revising the novel to remove the letter 'S' completely and start recording all over.) Intro with de-esser . Intro with de-esser and equalization , per your instructions. Pa...

Point taken about my perception of muffled sound. I'm using over-ear headphones of decent quality, but they might be messing up the audio subtly, so I'll defer to you there. In future recordings, I'll place the laptop in the bathroom, without the USB extension cord. I hate to make you modify the 'sp...

I appreciate what you're saying, and I'd love nothing more than to buy studio time, but having called around and gotten quotes from local places, it's just not financially possible for me right now and won't be for years. My plan is to record this one at home through ingenuity (mostly yours, so far)...

;nyquist plug-in ;version 4 There's the problem; I was using version 1. I updated to your attached version. I ran with your updated instructions and got the exact same test results you did , except that the noise value was 69.7, where you got 67.4. Could be a very slight difference in noise reducti...

The server is local, so 'posting files to it' is really 'copying the files into a second folder'. I'm 99% sure transferring WAV files over a LAN connection won't modify them. (Then again: Windows.) Here's the intro file, with never-before-used filename, completely unpatched. Here's a version that I ...

Unpatched and patched . (Same pass/fail results as before.) I am utterly baffled as to why they each have the exact same filesize. They sound different and, when I load them back into Audacity, their waveforms are completely different. The patched one sounds a lot noisier. I must be doing something...

Ah, crap, I think the 'backup' I made of the track was post-filters. In that case, I think both of them are patched; the track passes on all but peaks. Edit: Hold on, I just checked the second track, which I have definitely NOT filtered, and it also passes, so that's no indication. I'm going to boot...

Here's the intro, unpatched and patched. It fails the peaks check, but only by a tiny margin (3.2 > 3.0) so we're close. Should I try some different filter settings, or go through and manually use a tool to soften the worst peaks?