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Wonder if they'll get peeved if I upload two samples, one compressed and normalized via Audacity and one via Chris's. The turnaround on the quality-control is crazy-making long. I get that they're busy, but I don't want to go reading the whole book if they're going to have issues.

Well, I did as you suggested and re-started Windows. I shut down completely and waited several minutes. After booting up, I did not even open my browser, but went straight to Audacity, opened the file, Cntrl A, and same problem: Validation error, Value not in range -36 to -6. Since yesterday, I down...

Wouldn't be the first time I've lost a forum thread. If you're in Mono (one blue wave), drag-select a twenty-second portion of your raw, unprocessed speech, File > Export Selected: WAV (Microsoft) 16-bit and post it here. Scroll down from a forum text window and Upload Attachment. There are shortco...

Reading high, loud and robust is most unusual. You are supposed to read slightly low so your reading style is not likely to peak over 100% and cause distortion. Target is peaks about -6dB to -10dB—yellow-ish on the recording meters. Microphone spacing is between fist and shaka http://www.kozco.com/...

I'm having some trouble getting it to work. Posted earlier.

I just want to thank Koz and Diane for going through this process. I'm thinking my sample is in slightly better shape (I hope, I hope). Which means I will get my own book done in a way that is acceptable to our friends at ACX. It is crazy-making to learn all this from the ground up. But aside from K...

I pulled it from your post to this forum: http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?p=325078#p325078. Wouldn't have done it from anywhere else (not that you'd know that, but just to reassure you). Just so I'm not being a complete idiot, how long does it take per minute to normalize a track? It cou...

I recently installed the RMS-Normalize plugin and when I clicked ok, nothing happened. No pop up saying it was working. I waited, like, 15 minutes, etc. Bupkes. And I couldn't see any difference in my wave pattern from my recording. Still, I tried compressing and limiting it, and when I did the ACX ...

kozikowski wrote:And that's also where you find it's a bad idea to wander in volume, expression, and sibilance through the course of the show. Theatrically Expressive is not welcome.

Koz

What? We're supposed to be reading in a monotone? That sounds like it would be hellishly boring to listen to.

So end of last March (before the RMS Normalize plugin came out), I finally got my first chapter recorded. I did my edits and followed Mr. Kozikowski's most excellent instructions, using the SetRMS plugin, then the Limiter. It passed ACX Check and sounded good, and I sent it off. Aside from the issue...