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And just to wear my obsessive engineer hat for a minute. The microphone has natural, internal noises, too (ffffffffff), so you can't whisper into your beer, even in a studio.

Koz

The further I can reduce the noise, the louder my voice will be? Close. The quieter your room is, the less you have to pay attention to voice volume. For example, if you have to double the volume of your voice for the client (you have to satisfy the client no matter what else you do), the backgroun...

Floor & table noises haven't been an issue. Remember that? You won't hear noises coming up through the floor or table. They just magically appear in the background of the performance. If you didn't buy the spidery shock mount with the microphone, you can fake a shock mount with a book and towel...

It's not an accident I'm steering you to the AudioBook tools. They're pre-baked, published and known, good, working. In general, if you can pass those, you can submit to anybody else, not just ACX. Worst-case, you may need to make minor changes to make the client happy. I'll bet serious chocolate no...

And no background noise at all. I don't understand why they sounded fine to me. How are you listening? This is the other half of producing pro-level readings by yourself. You have to be able to hear all this stuff going by. Cheap speakers or earbuds need not apply. Please don't tell me you're liste...

The refrigerator-off clip is missing one of the two background tones. 102Hz if you're keeping score. So that's the fridge. The rest of the noises succumbed to the standard rumble filter leaving one "mystery tone" which I cut out surgically as before. This clip too, should sail right by aud...

This is slightly less severe noise processing on Test2. This one would be perfectly compatible with audiobook reading. See first three numbers and attached sound file. I still had to do a little extra sound processing to get it there, but it works and by enough leeway not to have to worry about tiny...

Remember I said I could identify more than one tone, motor or fan? That's pretty unusual in one thing like a refrigerator, so it's probably also things like heating/cooling or something like that.

You can get a Mac to make noise if you try hard enough. Open up enough busy web pages at once.

Koz

You posted what while I was typing my diatribe. I'll listen when I get home.

Koz

I thought we lost you there. We were going to send out the dogs. I need to go read that again. I don't think changing the microphone is going to do a lot of good. The desirable volume level (on the blue waves) is peaks between 33% and 50%. It's a constant source of irritation that the bouncing sound...