Audacity Forum

A further volume note: You don't need to do this in a vacuum. That's what the volume meters are there for. But above that, it's good to break it once as a test. Keep announcing louder and louder until the show overloads. It may be a shock how much louder that is than what you've been doing.

Koz

Just getting louder has a limit. A microphone system will overload, too. You do need to balance it. But, yes, you're much more likely to announce too quiet. A microphone note: Yes, cardioid microphones have a dead point directly behind, and figure-of-8 microphones have two, left and right, hypercard...

Cool. What settings did you use and which tool?

Koz

It does depend on what's in the closets. If they're full of winter coats and other heavy clothing, they're pretty harmless. If they're empty, they're going to sound like announcing in a rain barrel. One of the comments has you leaving all the coats in the closet if you decide to announce in there. H...

Either of these help?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBriFY8s06I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiEaGO3SbeQ

You may be working too hard.

Koz

Vinyl is a special case. The character of that sound doesn't easily fall into general noise or distortion categories. However, it's so popular, special purpose tools have been designed. I don't know that the instructions stress enough how important the Profile step is. That's where Noise Reduction &...

worth having if you do narration. Perfectly true. Delightful tools, but we won't know if you actually need them until we hear the work not smothered by tons of processing and corrections. Noise reduction at 10dB is about as much as you can get away with without it causing conspicuous artifacts. I c...

Happy to be told I'm doing everything wrong I don't know there is a "wrong." It's not unusual to "get there" with different tools and techniques. The real magic is finding the technique that retains the most vocal quality with the least corrections. I'm getting some ghosting / e...

MIDAS have been bought by Behringer. Dipping briefly into Brit-Speak of always referring to companies as plural. Which preamp is better? some people complain that the Behringer is noisy That's concerning. And like how would you know? I have a fuzzy philosophy item that says you should always own or...

I meant those foam acoustic treatment things that go in the corners of the room to reduce low frequencies You hit one I know nothing about. It's been my experience that parallel walls cause the most audible problems. I have a joke that in an office I used to have, the walls were so surgically paral...