Audacity Forum

Open a segment of the show before you did anything to it. The raw performance. Do you have ACX-Check? Highly recommended. It's an analysis tool that reads you all the ACX specifications in one shot. I have an analysis page that tells you all the things you have to do to get the same information with...

The middle value, gain, is supposed to help make up for that, but I don't like tools that are violins; you need to be a practiced expert to use them.

Koz

Two years?

I have a step by step process for this, but we need to wait so I have access to a real keyboard.

Koz

You might try saving the MP3 at a higher quality than the Audacity default of 128. I think you can choose higher values up to (I think) 320. Choose one super high value just to see what it does to your work. Of course, you should be Exporting the originals as WAV. Those are your edit masters. Do Not...

It's MP3's job to delete sounds, voices and other work which are too quiet to hear in normal songs or shows. That's how it gets those small files. I expected the MP3 conversion to delete your subliminal messages, not make them louder. In any event, that's why many performers hate MP3. It re-mixes th...

You use whatever settings appear to work for you. All I can do is get in the ballpark with known good settings.

Koz

The voice level sounds the same to me but the room "silence" sound is more pronounced than when I ran it on my last upload. A reduction of 12 will do that. The last number is how Reduction affects your voice. You're listening for slightly honky, wine-glass voices. That's what ACX is looki...

It's a nice mic. I might end up still preferring to use that one over the AT2035. We'll see.

You're allowed to have more than one microphone....

Koz

Normalize and Amplify are sisters. All they do is change the volume of a selection—once. Neither goes into content and tries to "even out" note by note volume variations. Neither cares what the content is. In the case of Normalize, I can use the DC Removal tool and I can tell the work spec...

Am I overdoing it with compress dynamics and normalization? Probably. I produced a passing clip with my quiet bedroom, good collection of equipment and volume adjustment. Full stop. Just for completeness: -- Select the whole clip or show by clicking just above MUTE. -- Effect > Normalize: [X]Remove...