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by kozikowski
Thu Jul 27, 2017 5:04 am
Forum: Audiobook Production
Topic: Audacity forum test clip
Replies: 51
Views: 9762

Re: Audacity forum test clip

What do you think? I think you must be doing something wrong. Screen Shot 2017-07-26 at 21.50.32.png I applied the three mastering steps to forum test clip 3.wav exactly as they appear in the mastering suite. Badda bing, badda boom. Out the door. Does the first step, Low Rolloff look like this: Scr...
by kozikowski
Thu Jul 27, 2017 4:31 am
Forum: macOS
Topic: Correcting Audio Drift with sync video clips
Replies: 16
Views: 3605

Re: Correcting Audio Drift with sync video clips

video film rate 23.976

Ewwww. I need to go take a shower....

Koz
by kozikowski
Thu Jul 27, 2017 4:24 am
Forum: macOS
Topic: Correcting Audio Drift with sync video clips
Replies: 16
Views: 3605

Re: Correcting Audio Drift with sync video clips

Unless told otherwise, a video editor may assume all the cameras and recorders recorded tracks with a 48000 sample rate (for example). If one of the recorders was recording at 48000.01 instead, that track will have a certain percentage of constant timing and pitch error when played at 48000-even. On...
by kozikowski
Thu Jul 27, 2017 3:02 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: Waveforms Disappear After Noise Reduction
Replies: 23
Views: 1892

Re: Waveforms Disappear After Noise Reduction

I really do need a stand for this thing.
Or a good book.

You don't need multi-thousand dollar microphones. You just need to be careful with what you got.

Koz
by kozikowski
Thu Jul 27, 2017 2:58 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: Waveforms Disappear After Noise Reduction
Replies: 23
Views: 1892

Re: Waveforms Disappear After Noise Reduction

According to the microphone instructions, you should be speaking into the side opposite the headphone socket. The headphone plugs into the back. The microphone is a cardioid type (heart or kidney pattern) and has a sound dead spot directly in back. This is a rock band microphone with the same patter...
by kozikowski
Thu Jul 27, 2017 2:33 am
Forum: Adding Features to Audacity
Topic: Normalize always
Replies: 12
Views: 1967

Re: Normalize always

I don't even know what's a live presentation. Audacity is a post-production editor. It starts with a recording or sound file you already have. Lots of people want us to apply filters or corrections during the recording. Audacity won't do that. One very serious problem of brute force corrections lik...
by kozikowski
Thu Jul 27, 2017 2:15 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: Waveforms Disappear After Noise Reduction
Replies: 23
Views: 1892

Re: Waveforms Disappear After Noise Reduction

I changed my mind. You should probably go off the deep end. That explains the high noise reduction numbers. The background noise in your system is stunningly high. I can't get you to a clean reading no matter what I do. Describe your microphone and room. I hear "bathroom" echoes. Does your...
by kozikowski
Thu Jul 27, 2017 1:58 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: Waveforms Disappear After Noise Reduction
Replies: 23
Views: 1892

Re: Waveforms Disappear After Noise Reduction

It's not unusual for a New User to go off the deep end when all they needed was a little volume change here and there. I'll listen in a minute. We had a recent poster who, after we got them to record reasonable volume in their studio, was able to pass AudioBook quality standards (barely) with minima...
by kozikowski
Thu Jul 27, 2017 1:51 am
Forum: Podcasting with Audacity
Topic: Audio file with speaker notes
Replies: 3
Views: 1309

Re: Audio file with speaker notes

The instructor has requested we submit an audio file WITH speaker notes (transcript) using this program. ...like we did it last week or like we always do it? The collage may have some standard on-line format for doing this. I don't know of any way to force straight MP3 to do it. Could they have mea...
by kozikowski
Thu Jul 27, 2017 1:30 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: trouble recording in stereo
Replies: 5
Views: 788

Re: trouble recording in stereo

Lost it there. If you get a "Y" splitter, you can record two copies of your guitar. That does work.

Koz