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Diane, the sister forum posting (that I confused) succeeded in passing ACX Quality Control and was sent to mastering and distribution.

http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 09#p318009

Koz

I'm embarrassed that my "theatrics" LOL at the 10 minute mark, seemed to create a need for all this "custom code". Yes and no. You should be able to announce expression without throwing the whole process into a tizzy. If you do get a tizzy, it means the process is brittle. The t...

http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/faq_ ... hancements

Koz

======================================== ;version 4 ;control target "Target RMS level" float "dB" -20 -40 -6 ;control mode "Normalize stereo channels" choice "Linked stereo,Independently" 0 (setf target (db-to-linear target)) (defun mean-sq (sig ln) (let ((j 1...

Is this the only effect I need?

No. We're going to make the second effect.

I need to shift gears.

Koz

The weak voice is the far side, right? Does it sound OK if you turn it up, or is it honky and talking into a wine glass?

Have you used MP3 Skype Recorder before?

Koz

You can post some work if you like, but we may never be able to turn it into a good quality show. The video people have many tricks to get good, clear sound during a video shoot. It's much harder than it looks. How did you shoot the video? Video camera? Cellphone? Is the video something you can crea...

It has an instruction page, so there's hope.

http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/limiter.html

Koz

Effect (scroll down) > Limiter.
Do you have that tool? If you open it on a piece of scrap sound, the first selection should have four options starting with Soft Limit.

It's better than even chance you may need to download that.

Let us know.

Koz

I'm going to squeeze my processed work down to an MP3

Oh no I'm not. It's too big. After I get the instructions together, it should look like this:
You may need to resize your browser to see the whole thing.

Koz