Audacity Forum

RMS means Root Mean Square or the area under the curve, which in audio is interesting to derive because of complex waveforms between 20Hz and 20000Hz. It also happens to correspond to loudness. So when people tell you to set your RMS, they're really complaining about loudness. ACX has very specific ...

I'm doing this in a publisher/layout program, so this is copy/paste. ==================== Mosquito-Killer4 PURPOSE Some affordable USB microphones and other USB audio devices can add a constant, irritating, high-pitch whine sound (electronic mosquitoes) to your recording. http://kozco.com/tech/audac...

Do an ACX-Check on one of the chapters that failed. Post a screen grab of the analysis, or just write down the top three values and post that.

You will be stunned when you see how easy mastering is now with the new tools under Audacity 2.1.3.

Koz

And even if you are wired, you said you wanted to record "noise." Are we talking random trash like traffic noise? Unless you stop it, Windows has programs that try to preserve your speaking voice...and suppress background and traffic noises. It hates music, too. http://manual.audacityteam....

We'll stick with 'USB Microphone Whine' and variations.
Koz

Tracks > Mix and Render to a new track.

The new track should be A-B expressed as a mix.

Koz

Since you're using the "Legacy Mastering" tools, I'm going to have to go back and read through that again. As I posted, you can't back up to the original reading, and continually piling effects and corrections on top of each other is dangerous. I'm not just blathering about saving everythi...

>Carrie I typically record a chapter, save it as an Audacity project (titled chapter#_title_raw), then edit and master, save the result as chapter#_title_final, then export that file as .mp3 and upload to ACX. From now on, I'll immediately export both my raw and mastered files as .wav as well. So, t...

Is that a thing that might happen? Yes. Audacity Project files are brittle and parts may not even open in the version that made them. none of my files are available anymore? What are "none of my files?" We are now in a mode where we stop digging holes to climb into and find out what happe...

>Carrie OK I ran ACX check, and it looks like they're hovering in the -29 range (so not awful...) I noticed that RMS Normalize only works on 2.1.3 and later -- I have 2.1.1. Am I correct in assuming that in order to apply this filter, I need to upgrade to the latest version of Audacity? What if I do...