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That it will actually be a 16 bit wav file?

Yes. The dynamic range of the new file will be 16-bit. The same as digital television and audio CDs.

Koz

Did you try just smashing them together? That should work if you just leave your mic up during the interview. This is what happens when you record in a noisy room. A simple production job turns into a rescue effort. If the background noise is constant, you may be able to use Noise Reduction to take ...

After you make it past the ACX Quality Control Robot, it has to sound good and you have to be able to read. That's the "Oh, right" moment. I have a USB gamer headset that works OK, but nobody is giving me any awards for theatrical sound quality. I do have an actual production headset micro...

You can check the RMS level with Analyze -> Contrast. You can check all the ACX specifications in one go with ACX Check. http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/Documents/acx-check.ny.zip Download and unzip that file and copy acx-check.ny over to your Audacity plugins folder. Restart Audacity. Select your p...

You are not saving an AUP sound file, although I know that's what it looks like. You are saving an Audacity Project. The AUP file is the project manager (it's a text file) and it manages all the sound bits in the _DATA folder of the same name. The AUP file and the _DATA folder have to be in the same...

There are no simple, reliable ways to do UP and DOWN. You can set Left and Right easily with the L/R timeline panning control to the left of the blue waves, but Up and Down generally means someone went out with special microphones and recorded a performance that way in addition to Left and Right, an...

It's impossible to cover everything in one or two posts. Post back when/if you get stuck.

Koz

And you won't need some of those corrections if it turns out there's something you can do to the physical studio to get rid of that 90Hz tone. That will speed things up.

Koz

We have a handy tool you might be interested in. ACX has a "robot" or automated quality control system that listens to your work for basic technical standards before a human gets involved. We generated a tool similar to how the robot works called ACX Check. ACX Check can save you a lot of ...

It would be useful for everybody. #1 The Four Horsemen of Audio Recording (reliable, time-tested ways to kill your show) -- 1. Echoes and room reverberation (Don't record the show in your mum's kitchen.) -- 2. Overload and Clipping (Sound that's recorded too loud is permanently trashed.) -- 3. Compr...