Audacity Forum

It is. The RMS value of a wav is 3dB lower than the peak reading. So if your Audacity green sound meter is bouncing at around -58, then your ACX noise value is -61 which passes. That's still pretty steep. My live recordings (with some exceptions) hover around the -48 range. That will not pass no mat...

the unweighted rms of a small selection into a text file. Good point. There's nothing in the spec about "A Weighing" or anything else. It's straight "Battery Equivalent." Noise. See Above. Xina has applied Noise Removal to the show and over and above the possible problems of doi...

Only if broad strokes are required.
Koz

More as I get there.
The account moderation (wait for posting) will vanish after some number of posts. We need to make sure you're not trying to sell us storm windows or manhood enhancing drugs.

You're not are you? Storm windows I mean?

Koz

Screen shot?
Koz

You can get something similar with multiple passes through Effect > Leveler at its highest setting. Intentionally creating clipping distortion in Audacity is a little rough because it was designed internally not to overload.
Or try Effect > Simple Distortion.

Koz

A portion of the ACX documentation is explicit about wanting the loudness variations of a show(s) to be small so as to avoid having to constantly adjust the volume. If you recall, that's also a page from Chris's Compressor book. RMS is one semi-good way to measure that. Remembering that this also th...

To amplify Koz's point,

Effect > Amplify
Koz

Do you get the blue waves and bouncing red recording meter in Audacity? Make sure your Audacity playback is set for your speakers or headphones.

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

Koz

You get a flat line recording, or the recording cursor doesn't move? Do you get the bouncing blue ball sound meter in the Mac? Apple (upper left) > System Preferences > Hardware > Sound > Input. If you don't get it there, then the Mac isn't seeing the device. Audacity will only record from devices t...