Audacity Forum

That seems to work. It will take some juggling between the tools and filters, but it seems OK. You picked a conferencing microphone because you happened to have it right? This microphone has a specification not found in "normal" microphones. Since it's a boundary type, you have to have a b...

Root Mean Square. It's a technical measurement of the force or energy of the blue waves. It also happens to roughly correspond to loudness, so it was a handy number even if it makes no apparent sense at all. Normalize and Amplify are close cousins of each other. They both change the size of the blue...

I've recorded in my bedroom by kneeling by and setting up on the bed. My bedroom has heavy carpeting and a cottage-cheese ceiling. There's also my old standby, furniture moving pads. http://www.kozco.com/pictures/boothFinished/laptop-mic.jpg Each wall is actually two pads back to back. http://kozco....

Somehow I did something that combined two different versions of that long post. I'm finding little odd errors as I read through it. Refresh your screen before you read it for final.

As we go.

Koz

Be sure and use dry erasable markers on your slate. If you use permanent markers by accident, you will be out behind the garage/car-park with acetone and a rag.

Koz

I'm doing this on the fly, so it's a little rough and remember the address because nothing points to it yet. http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/Documents/ACX_Specs.txt With the idea you have to start somewhere, I said to bring the sound peaks up to standard. I didn't use LF_rolloff on your clip. I w...

I can't quite make it and it's because of perfectly common reasons. Play the attached clip. It has peaks at -3, RMS just inside the -23 value and noise in the -60 range or better. The problem is you can hear the noise "breathing" with your voice, the "ocean breath" effect. The la...

This is what gentle Noise Removal and level setting can do (attached). It doesn't make conformance yet, but I'm close.

Koz

I think you may need the instruments to tell what's happening. I think you left the land of just listening long ago.

I could listen to a newscast in that voice. I'm taking the clip through first level ACX processing just to see if I can do it without the performance falling apart.

Koz

Remembering that if you do correct for it once, you should do that every time and you have to keep track of it. Most people try to simplify production bookkeeping.
Koz