Audacity Forum

There's some actual errors in the reading. That's like wearing mismatched shoes to an audition (although Barbra Streisand managed to pull that off nicely).

Koz

I can't make specifications on your clip. By the time I run the tools to push the peaks, loudness, compression,etc around, the voice volume is starting to duck, pump and wander from too much correction. Even though ACX needs submissions in MP3, you should be working in very high quality WAV format. ...

There was a recent posting from someone who accepted a job to produce an audiobook and wanted to know where to start. I said hire a studio to capture his voice and then bring that home for processing, etc. etc. and submission. If, after the second or third book he still wanted to do this, then start...

We seem to have arrived at similar places. Noise Removal doesn't actually remove noises during speech. That's what the "Smoothing" control does. In gentle noise conditions, the voice masks the noise and Noise Removal actually removes noise everywhere else. What most pepole actually want is...

I usually have the manuscript open on my laptop, How do you keep keyboard, screen and script management buttons from getting into the performance? You can run your system in monitor (right-click on the red meters > Start Monitoring) and possibly arrange the microphone so the tilt and orientation wo...

Skype is famous for changing the computer's sound system to suit its needs and then "forgetting" to change the settings back when it was done. I know you can't do this, but I bet if you got the microphone working and didn't do anything else with the computer, it would be fine forever. This...

Thank you. I really need to dig out my X2U and see if it's susceptible to The Great USB Noise Problem. So in essence, you're recording in a time-share studio. When the sun comes up, you turn into a pumpkin. Your fame and fortune could come from renting out your studio if your voice talent isn't appr...

I need to leave, but this is my first pass at correction. Most people try to beat the track to a pulp and get science-fiction boiling voices. This was restrained noise removal and a little equalization. If you do either very much more, you're going to create other problems. As we go.
Koz

Drag-select the portion you want to correct, or, click above the MUTE button for the whole file. Effect > Compressor. The compressor settings depend on where you start and where you want to end.

Koz

There is one pure evil possibility. How sure are you that you're the only one using your microphone? Do you put black tape over your webcam when you're not using it? You can totally turn on a webcam without the little light.

Koz