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by kozikowski
Wed Mar 18, 2015 5:00 am
Forum: Audiobook Production
Topic: Yet another total n00b
Replies: 44
Views: 7223

Re: Yet another total n00b

That posted equalization curve is a cousin to the one I made. It decreases the crispness of your voice. We'll get to applying it in a minute. I find it very hard to "read over" as you say, not make mistakes, sit close to the mic, use a Kindle AND watch Audacity. Actually, I find it nearly ...
by kozikowski
Wed Mar 18, 2015 4:38 am
Forum: Making Music with Audacity
Topic: Audacity Settings
Replies: 2
Views: 1183

Re: Audacity Settings

What does it say in the Device Toolbar?

http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/de ... olbar.html

That should say Stereo near the microphone icon.

Koz
by kozikowski
Tue Mar 17, 2015 11:30 pm
Forum: Audiobook Production
Topic: Yet another total n00b
Replies: 44
Views: 7223

Re: Yet another total n00b

When Koz sits down for a minute to listen. Remember a while back I said I had a filter to take a little of the "edge" from your voice? I haven't, no. I find it very hard to "read over" as you say, not make mistakes, sit close to the mic, use a Kindle AND watch Audacity. Actually,...
by kozikowski
Tue Mar 17, 2015 10:50 pm
Forum: Audiobook Production
Topic: Yet another total n00b
Replies: 44
Views: 7223

Re: Yet another total n00b

Can I assume you haven't been watching Audacity at all during these tests?
Koz
by kozikowski
Tue Mar 17, 2015 10:49 pm
Forum: Audiobook Production
Topic: Yet another total n00b
Replies: 44
Views: 7223

Re: Yet another total n00b

You can get hiss from a lot of different places, but the biggie is the microphone preamplifier (MicPre). Microphone signals from your voice are tiny. How tiny are they? They're so tiny that they're the same size as some electronic parts' natural molecular noise. So don't make MicPres out of those pa...
by kozikowski
Tue Mar 17, 2015 10:22 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Cannot save Project, Exporting Only last Few Minutes of File
Replies: 15
Views: 1195

Re: Cannot save Project, Exporting Only last Few Minutes of

The normal possibilities are you really did run out of drive space, you used bad characters in the filename, you have permissions issues, etc. But what's the possibility you have your virus software cranked up to Instant Violent Death and it's preventing Audacity from writing the files? Take the mac...
by kozikowski
Tue Mar 17, 2015 6:32 pm
Forum: macOS
Topic: Voice over tinny sound needs fixed
Replies: 21
Views: 6945

Re: Voice over tinny sound needs fixed

Checking which microphone you're recording from is not rocket surgery. Start a recording and scratch the mic.

http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/clips/ScratchTest2.wav

Koz
by kozikowski
Tue Mar 17, 2015 11:45 am
Forum: Audiobook Production
Topic: Credible Voice Changing Effect Recipes
Replies: 9
Views: 2447

Re: Credible Voice Changing Effect Recipes

No question it's best if you do both.
Voice.
Actor.

Look at the list of voice actors on a Hayao Miyazaki film. It's a foreign animated film. They could have gotten anybody. Chris Pratt did Emmet on The Lego Movie. etc.

Koz
by kozikowski
Tue Mar 17, 2015 4:41 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: Shrink MP3 file
Replies: 13
Views: 1269

Re: Shrink MP3 file

They may not make 4GB any more.
Koz
by kozikowski
Tue Mar 17, 2015 4:36 am
Forum: Audiobook Production
Topic: Fledgling voice artist seeking counsel.
Replies: 384
Views: 63436

Re: Fledgling voice artist seeking counsel.

Do you now move to Beverly Hills?
What's that, six blocks? Seven?

Throw a note up when ACX approves the work.

Koz