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You just have to start tinkering with Audio and you appreciate how much hard work goes into good sound. I am so going to have to lie down for a minute. You are miles ahead of all the posters who appear here wanting us to make them "sound more professional." There's two leaps right away. Y...

What does the Mac think? Apple (upper left) > System Preferences > Sound > Input. Select the usb connection and see if the blue ball sound meter jumps. If not, then the sound is not getting between the mixer and the AC-1. I use the Tape-Out on my mixer. http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/peaveyT...

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We can only go with what you tell us.
Koz

What's the goal? Read audiobooks and be internationally famous? Podcast? Computer noise can be a serious problem. ACX AudioBook has some serious restrictions for background noise, and it's checked by a robot, so you may not even get past the bouncer with the bulging muscles. We have some tools and p...

The damage moves around. It jumps to a different location in the same track. That's a quote from the posting. I'd feel a lot better if the poster said the words "I restarted my machine from power off." This could be symptoms of a profoundly unstable machine. It's not likely to fix itself o...

And remote monitor is one of the solutions mentioned in the ACX documentation. Once you get your basic announcing settled, it's just a matter of getting a little louder or softer to maintain overall presentation volume. It's a memory or presentation hint. It's not unusual over the course of several ...

Found it. http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?p=308510#p308510 This is part of an on-going conversation, so it goes on before and after this post. No, this is not unusual. The thing about parking a microphone on your desk and reading audiobooks straight-off is something of a fairy tale. Koz

First things first. The C1 is a directional, side-fire microphone. You should be speaking into the little red light (which should be on), not the back and not the end. The C1 is not a fire-breather; it's not particularly loud. So I'm not surprised you need to present a little aggressively. It's the ...

I think my favorite woman's voice is Molly Wood from the Marketplace radio show/podcast. That's the joke that I could listen to her read the phonebook. I have one radio show I need to capture. She hosted Marketplace and I want to get a test clip. My AudioBook reader is Sarah Vowell. This is a clip f...

Could you try to improve this new recording? Not by much. Audio Compressor -- Select the whole clip or show by clicking just above MUTE. -- Effect > Normalize: [X]Remove DC, [X]Normalize to -3.2 > OK -- Effect > Compressor: Thresh -20, Floor -40, Ratio 2:1, Attack 0.2, Release 1.0, > OK -- Effect >...