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I am using a brand new laptop Next time it does that, change the Audacity recording microphone to the laptop internal microphone (next to the microphone symbol). Make sure you're recording from it with the scratch test. https://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/clips/ScratchTest2.mp3 Consult your instruc...

Make sure to Paste: Loop Mode is set to Enable looping.

Writing that down.

Koz

If you know all this already

I don't. I'd be hunting and pecking—badly.

Koz

I believe the Party Line is to Zip the AUP file and the _DATA folder into an "Archive" (as Apple calls it) and send that. Transmission errors and scrambles vanish when you do that. At least the unintentional ones. Over and above the general admonition of not using punctuation marks in file...

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nipped and tucked for timing and breaths

How? I had an ACX Audition fail for breath noises and tongue ticks. You are now the expert.

Koz

mastering chain you recommend wouldn't doubly affect the parts already mastered, Actually, that was one of the design criteria. If RMS Normalize and Limiter aren't needed, they don't do anything. Filter Curve does have a double effect and should be avoided, so yes you could master first and then re...

You still need to submit an Audition to ACX before you read the whole book.

I can sense you keep oozing away from that.

Koz

I need to figure out how to place my mic so I don't get any more exploding Ps in the future I found oblique placement does wonders for that. Explicit nose.png Popping P sounds (spitting, blowing out the candles) go straight in front of your lips. Don't put the microphone there. If you use oblique p...

You got me.

There is a tiny portion of the sound gone every .002 seconds through the whole file. I would have bet that was USB error or other time sharing or data management problem. But that would have affected Pro Tools, too.

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Koz

I can hear the difference, the sound is much worse There's another way to do this, too. Gently scratch each one. https://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/clips/ScratchTest2.mp3 Classic earbuds have the microphone in that little fat section in the cable with the volume control rocker. My Air has its micr...