Audacity Forum

Any impressions? It's noisy. I isolated the dialog portion of the test and applied volume and peak processing I've been using for AudioBooks. RMS and Peak work very well, but the noise level (fffff) is much too high. That's not the only problem. Why are you recording at 96000, 32-Floating instead o...

Reinstalling Audacity doesn't reset Audacity. Audacity keeps preferences and settings in a separate folder to allow for easy upgrades. If you do want to completely start over (this will delete any custom plugins you have installed. I hope you keep copies). Drag Audacity Application to the trash. Go ...

It's not production regulations. The studio just has to make sure they don't distort anybody's voice. Volume processing happens at the transmitter. Squirting radio energy into the air has federal regulations. I worked at a station so paranoid about overvolume, they actually got a citation for being ...

I'm pretty sure not many would confuse the 1/8" soundcard socket microphones with anything on an XLR. I know quite a few people that would like to confuse them. I did make two adapters so I could plug my unbalanced lavaliers into my XLR mixer. The lavaliers have local battery, so I never ran in...

Good luck. You can still get into trouble. Depending on what the work is, you'll have to read at an even volume for several weeks, etc. ACX puts great stress on having your chapters match. If you think about it, you can post how you did it. What kind of microphone, computer (if any) and environment....

Two copies of valuable work is good. Nobody keeps up three copies and one is too dangerous. Two.

I think I can still find commercial work I shot years ago.

Koz

it passes the acx check with no other changes. That's correct. I'm impressed. That's a raw recording? Do you know who Don LaFontaine is (was)? This is me backing slowly away. I suspect you're going to sail straight through ACX Quality control. Contact them. I think they'll let you submit a sample b...

While you're beating up soundproofing, it's good, since you're starting from scratch, to not make the walls parallel. You can get away with far less cotton wool on the walls if they're not flat to each other. We had a sound room several millennia ago which had minimal actual soundproofing and it loo...

screaming bloody murder That explains the communications type microphone. You're talking yourself into recording somewhere else entirely. There are professional audio people who will refuse to record in an environment like that. There is no up side. If you say yes and it works, you will be the Go-T...

What are the other values? Natural voice peaks that low are unusual. That means you probably did some serious processing to get it there. One very common ACX Human Quality Control failure is Overprocessing. What did ACX-Check say with you turned it loose on the original voice clips ? Better still, r...