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by kozikowski
Thu Aug 13, 2015 11:53 pm
Forum: Audiobook Production
Topic: Newborn narrator
Replies: 38
Views: 4458

Re: Newborn narrator

Dueling Posts. My personal bias is to not change anything once you get it working. I have horror tales of changing one minor, insignificant thing right before a live performance. There might be something we can do in Equalization to take a little of the boxiness out of the voice. In that case, you j...
by kozikowski
Thu Aug 13, 2015 11:39 pm
Forum: Audiobook Production
Topic: Newborn narrator
Replies: 38
Views: 4458

Re: Newborn narrator

OK, here's a revised list to give you a little more breathing room for artistic expression and mistakes. You'll need to install the custom equalization plugin. http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/Documents/LF_rolloff_for_speech.xml.zip Unzip that to LF_rolloff_for_speech.xml Adding Audacity Equalizat...
by kozikowski
Thu Aug 13, 2015 11:28 pm
Forum: Audiobook Production
Topic: Newborn narrator
Replies: 38
Views: 4458

Re: Newborn narrator

Whatever you do, as long as it doesn't get any worse, you're good to go. Most people would kill to be able to produce an ACX clip with no significant processing. You can do this testing yourself. You don't have to keep posting. Drag-Select 0.5 to 1.5. Analyze > ACX Check. Read Noise. Turn the air co...
by kozikowski
Thu Aug 13, 2015 11:17 pm
Forum: Audiobook Production
Topic: Newborn narrator
Replies: 38
Views: 4458

Re: Newborn narrator

Do you have Compact Fluorescent Lamps in your studio? I have one that makes hummy buzzy noises. Undimmed standard tungsten bulbs and LED "bulbs" don't make noise. Candles don't, either. Be careful not to set the clothing on fire.

Koz
by kozikowski
Thu Aug 13, 2015 11:07 pm
Forum: Audiobook Production
Topic: Newborn narrator
Replies: 38
Views: 4458

Re: Newborn narrator

OK, back to earth. Do a similar test but bring the computer back inside and turn the fish tank back on. My vote is the air conditioning system. The tone is still there in this last clip, but it's just so low in volume the only way I know it's there is to go looking for it with engineering tools. It'...
by kozikowski
Thu Aug 13, 2015 11:04 pm
Forum: Audiobook Production
Topic: Newborn narrator
Replies: 38
Views: 4458

Re: Newborn narrator

Yeah, PJTest2.wav is without any processing. Most Cool. Take a breath. -- Select the whole clip or show by clicking just above MUTE. -- Effect > Normalize: [X]Remove DC, [X]Normalize to -3.2 > OK In English, I reduced the volume a little bit. That's the entire list of clip corrections. Attached. It...
by kozikowski
Thu Aug 13, 2015 10:49 pm
Forum: Audiobook Production
Topic: hiring.
Replies: 5
Views: 1025

Re: hiring.

Your message is public. If you don't get any replies, then nobody is interested. This doesn't usually go well. Most people post to get help and then we never see them again.

If you give a little more detail, we may be able to tell you how to do it.

Koz
by kozikowski
Thu Aug 13, 2015 10:46 pm
Forum: Making Music with Audacity
Topic: Layering A quiet Voice with a Loud Voice
Replies: 6
Views: 946

Re: Layering A quiet Voice with a Loud Voice

See that bold text up there in the first answer?
Koz
by kozikowski
Thu Aug 13, 2015 10:40 pm
Forum: Feature Request Archive
Topic: Sensible defaults could make Audacity a lot better
Replies: 62
Views: 5945

Re: Sensible defaults could make Audacity a lot better

I've been working in the marketing industry for a long time. Numbers is what I do. And when I see those numbers, I know something is wrong. I mean, "3 votes, 4 votes..." You may need to back up and get the 10,000 foot (3048M view). If you've been doing that for a while, you know that unde...
by kozikowski
Thu Aug 13, 2015 10:23 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: quality
Replies: 2
Views: 181

Re: quality

user on v2.11 Really 2.11? 2.11 is a bogus version. The real version is 2.1.1. http://audacityteam.org/download/ One way to capture on-line sound is record Stereo Mix which sends the sound out to the analog soundcard and then brings it back. So the sound goes through all the analog conversions and ...