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One more note. It's not unusual for capture or production to have different specifications than delivery or final. For example, live recording for audiobooks recommendation is quieter than the delivery work. Much of that comes from live recording being harder to control than the files going out the ...

View > Show Clipping . You may have an occasional thin red line maybe every minute or so. Maybe not. As above, if you created this damage inside Audacity, you can easily recover with any of the volume tools such as Effect > Amplify . If the damage happened outside Audacity, that's the end of the wo...

I noticed the Zoom recorded only has a XLR input. Did you also notice the Zoom has microphones? Many people found the built-in Zoom microphones work measurably better than the XLR connection, no matter which microphone you plug in. So no, you don't need to lug the whole computer hoo-haa along with ...

http://kozco.com/pix/SoundLevelMeter.jpg It doesn’t have to be crazy complicated. That’s my old Radio Shack Sound Level Meter. It’s set for 90dB C-Weighing at zero on the meter. You can use Slow Response to average the reading over several seconds. And no, you can’t do it directly in Audacity. Koz

My method - based on your extraordinary help: You're welcome, but that's not my extraordinary help. That's the other process somebody else published. My mastering publication started with a rumble filter and uses special RMS Normalize. http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=96103 Us...

We recomment strongly not to use MP3 for archive or audio production. MP3 causes background audio distortion which isn't a big deal until you need to do production or editing with the music. Do you make playlists? Then the playlists are going to have double MP3 distortion and you may be able to hear...

But before you do that.

Apple (upper left) > System Preferences > Sound > Input. Do you see Built-In Line-In? Play a tape. Does the bouncing light sound meter bounce? Is the volume control slider all the way up?

Koz

Nose Reduction has a recursive problem. Step One (Profile) is to select a small portion of the performance with only noise , so the tool knows what to "chew on." If the performance has no such performance gap, or the show is so noisy you can't tell where the gaps are, Noise Reduction is us...

ACX Check. You don't have to do it that way, but it's the most convenient. There are ways to fake out the noise measurement in that tool, but overall, it works pretty well. We published an audiobook mastering process. http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=96103 It's "RMS"....

Macs don't have stereo connections any more unless you have an older MBP, or a Mini.

http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 47&t=99246

Koz