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by kozikowski
Wed May 03, 2017 4:01 am
Forum: Audiobook Production
Topic: Help me with RMS levels and mastering for ACX
Replies: 26
Views: 13344

Re: Help me with RMS levels and mastering for ACX

Did you write the book?

Koz
by kozikowski
Wed May 03, 2017 3:19 am
Forum: Audiobook Production
Topic: Help me with RMS levels and mastering for ACX
Replies: 26
Views: 13344

Re: Help me with RMS levels and mastering for ACX

Time for a wet blanket? It's not at all unusual for someone to read through the first half (or more) of a book and find they got so much better through practice, they start over.

Koz
by kozikowski
Wed May 03, 2017 3:12 am
Forum: Audiobook Production
Topic: Help me with RMS levels and mastering for ACX
Replies: 26
Views: 13344

Re: Help me with RMS levels and mastering for ACX

Sample 2 passes easily by adding LF-Rolloff. So those three corrections are all you need. Judging noise can be misleading. Set your sound system for comfortable listening volume while you speak. Then, without changing any settings, scroll down to the Room Tone or background noise. I don't hear anyth...
by kozikowski
Wed May 03, 2017 2:48 am
Forum: Audiobook Production
Topic: Help me with RMS levels and mastering for ACX
Replies: 26
Views: 13344

Re: Help me with RMS levels and mastering for ACX

Oh, and a few days ago I ordered the Shure A15HP filter which I'm hoping will be some help with the rumbles you mentioned? It's already on the way so I hope it was a wise purchase! You'll have to experiment. If most of the noise is coming from the microphone (unlikely), then it will help. More like...
by kozikowski
Wed May 03, 2017 2:37 am
Forum: Audiobook Production
Topic: Help me with RMS levels and mastering for ACX
Replies: 26
Views: 13344

Re: Help me with RMS levels and mastering for ACX

I know it's tempting to pay surgical attention to the position of the knobs, but they're almost irrelevant unless they run all the way up or down. Your goal is to make the Audacity volume meters work out perfect or nearly perfect. Yes. I applied two different tools to get what I got, one built-in to...
by kozikowski
Wed May 03, 2017 1:34 am
Forum: Audiobook Production
Topic: Help me with RMS levels and mastering for ACX
Replies: 26
Views: 13344

Re: Help me with RMS levels and mastering for ACX

Two sins. I'm doing this on a machine not up to date, and I didn't catch up the plugin management. However, starting from your raw clip. I got this. See the sentence 2/3 down. Screen Shot 2017-05-02 at 18.26.59.png I can do even better with noise by using our super-duper rumble filter. It takes out ...
by kozikowski
Wed May 03, 2017 1:18 am
Forum: Audiobook Production
Topic: Help me with RMS levels and mastering for ACX
Replies: 26
Views: 13344

Re: Help me with RMS levels and mastering for ACX

That's too low. The fuzzy recommendation is to hit Audacity so the multi-colored display just starts turning colors, first yellow and then orange. The meter will turn angry orange and then red if you get too loud. In numbers, you are shooting for peaks at -6dB. That works out to 50% on the blue wave...
by kozikowski
Wed May 03, 2017 12:02 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: Can't hear parts of recording
Replies: 9
Views: 547

Re: Can't hear parts of recording

If you were using VoiceMemo on your phone, VoiceMemo has stiff noise, interference and quality processing built in and can lead you into a false sense of being able to record anything anywhere under any conditions. You can't. If you happen to catch a recording environment that's just too hard to dea...
by kozikowski
Tue May 02, 2017 11:43 pm
Forum: Making Music with Audacity
Topic: What do you call this sound? Is it possible to fix it?
Replies: 30
Views: 6209

Re: What do you call this sound? Is it possible to fix it?

You may find you have the rare mixing of a particular sound defect and a monitor system that's sensitive to it. Another variation is a monitor system that overloads under certain exact conditions. Either can be why none of us can hear any problems with the music. I see a bit up the thread someone fo...
by kozikowski
Tue May 02, 2017 11:13 pm
Forum: Adding Features to Audacity
Topic: Slim down the Click Track interface
Replies: 95
Views: 16533

Re: Slim down the Click Track interface

http://polynome.net/ I don't think I have anything that will play it. I never updated my Air to Sierra, so it's still cranking along on OS-X before the Great OS-X/iOS Meld which caused so many problems. I wonder if they took a cue from the GarageBand people. Getting GarageBand to make a simple, hig...