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Koz

I applied your published correction suite and the clip sails straight through ACX-Check and I'm guessing it sounds exactly like you. There are no prominent background noises and even if there were, they're well below the volume of being important. I did not apply the de-esser/de-clicker thing. You j...

I have a 320 kbps CBR MP3 file As far as you know. I've been known to create super high quality MP3s to keep my lower quality original from getting much worse. The first time somebody does production and makes a new MP3, they are going to get the combined quality of the first and third MP3s, not 32...

once during a workflow, when doing a final export It's recommended every time you downconvert from 32-floating to 16 bit. That's the step which creates the possibility of conversion artifacts. Upconverting is no trouble. You're converting to a much higher accuracy format. But coming back down you c...

Dithering is added to a show when down converting (32 float > 16 bit) to keep errors from lining up and becoming audible. I suspect two passes through MP3 are going to do far more damage than anything Audacity is likely to do. We very strongly recommend avoiding MP3 always, or saving it for the last...

Surveillance, right? You need to be able to hear somebody speaking into their cellphone or other party in the middle of a noisy street or other difficult environment? The short answer is no. We can't split apart a performance into individual actors and sounds. Once the interference is louder than th...

I need to settle between Life Tasks long enough to listen.

You are warned that ACX places very firm importance on matching, so if you start with the Yeti, chance is very good you need to finish that way, too. Don't change microphones in mid stream, so to speak.

Koz

Jensen Transformer

http://www.jensen-transformers.com/pro-audio/

They weren't particularly cheap. They knew what they had.

Koz

A transformer maker whose name escapes me used to make devices to do this exact job. The lead on a lecture I went to said he won't leave the house without a pair of them to interface between his computers and the house. So yes, that's why some quality info on that adapter is in order. Assuming you d...