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I know what used to cause desync. In the US, analog video didn't run at 30 FPS. It ran at NTSC rates 29.97. Constant problems with video and sound drifting apart. Some older TV shows are broadcast on digital TV at the old rate. There was the old joke that an hour and 60 minutes weren't the same in t...

Virus check? Nowhere in there did you say you updated your virus software or did the overnight exhaustive scan. Also, sometimes a blizzard of errors like that could be running out of internal hard drive or other storage error. When was the last time you hard restarted your machine? Windows has a sof...

Cool Edit blue waves are in dB, but 6 is in the middle. I'd welcome not having to constantly tell people that 50% on the waves is -6dB on the sound meter.

Even if the graphics didn't change a bit, kissing off percentages would be welcome.

Koz

Somebody recently posted with a podcast produced with hard gating, we assume to cover up a noisy microphone in a bad room. What that does is dump blackness of space silence between each word as you speak.

It__seems___like__a___good__idea___but___it's___really___annoying.

Koz

Before you get all excited about submitting to ACX, ACX Check is only the first layer of submission testing. It's the most difficult for new users because of the hardware requirements. No, you probably can't buy a Yeti and start publishing books. If you did pass ACX-Check but you got there by beatin...

There are several new tools available that also abbreviate preparing an ACX submission from your work. Until those tools, there was no way to intentionally set RMS, one of the ACX specifications. You always had to do it sideways around the barn with other tools. Steve developed ACX Normalize which d...

You need to know ACX Check noise analysis depends on finding at least half-second of Room Tone to analyze. If it doesn't find that, the reading will go straight into the toilet. That may seem a little wacky, but if you read the ACX Submission Specifications, some Room Tone is built in and they will ...

So now you know what a better quality microphone in a quiet, echo-free room will do for you. Good quality voice recording is not for the easily frightened, even if you're not reading for audiobooks.

Koz

All those things. Pin 1 at the XLR is intended for protective shield or ground. The console is expecting the sound to appear between pins 2 and 3, 2 being primary or "right-side up." A proper balanced system will work perfectly well (on short runs) without pin 1 connected. There are some s...

Some of that forward honky sound could be cause by the table. Spread a heavy blanket, towel or multiple layers of cloth on the whole table under the microphone. That blue thing is a furniture moving blanket. http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/MicBookTowel-500t.jpg The book and orange bath towel are ...