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I KNOW I would have used it.

How would you find it? Half the fun with this stuff is organizing and presenting. The Audacity wiki/FAQ has a lot of stuff in there, but it's difficult to find anything without annotating some of it like I did.

Koz

I wonder if you're using it right. It's a side-fire microphone. You should be speaking into the side grill just up from the activity light. It's the side of the microphone with the company name. Like this: https://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/lin-manuelMicrophone.jpg Do you have an actual newspap...

I sew. I'm a "seamster." I keep seeing the nightmare of sewing the rockwool covers.

Koz

Sounds good to me.

Which microphone is that? It doesn't have the harsh, overly crisp, sharp, essing that some other microphones do. It sounds like a natural voice.

That's a raw sound file, right? No effects or filters?

Koz

Terrific work. I can't listen right this second, but I expect it to sound perfect. I mastered it for audiobook submission and it passes with no other filters or corrections needed. milk_test-Mastered.wav Screen Shot 2020-10-10 at 11.14.38.png With reference to the last picture in the last post: Scre...

There is a recent forum posting: "Now that I'm done reading my book, help me pass ACX."

I swear I'm going to publish "Common Mistakes."

Koz

I think the worst problem this microphone had was that I couldn't buy it. This was a microphone series that a company made and dumped on the market for many different suppliers to put their name on. I tried to buy it (from the US) and the supplier admitted that they couldn't actually sell me one. I ...

We can do a quick evaluation on the forum if you read and publish a short sound test.

https://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/Tes ... _Clip.html

Read down the blue links. They're very short and they address very common problems.

Koz

There are a couple of new requirements for publishing. I have to be able to buy your book on Amazon. There is no ACX audiobook publishing without that. Also, they published a list of bad book types. Scroll down. https://www.acx.com/help/200878270 We have had posters who wanted to publish cookbooks a...

The posted mastering process will cause you to pass ACX RMS (loudness) and Peak almost no matter what you do without causing any sound damage. Then all you have to do is record with low background noise and you will have all three specifications. This is the abbreviated version of the instructions f...