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Is this your first book?

You can submit a short audition to ACX to make sure everything is OK before you read a book. It's harder to read good quality at home than everyone thinks.


Koz

every time I paste recorded clips together You're reading an audiobook? Your description is ringing alarm bells even past that the process doesn't seem to work right. Typically, a performer will read a chapter in one day or sitting and then the next day read the next one. That's a good way to hide ...

You didn't save an AUP sound file, even though that's what it looks like. You saved an Audacity Project. This is one complete Audacity project. https://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/MyMusicAUP-MyMusic_DATA.jpg You need both the AUP file and the _DATA folder. They have to be in the same location or...

I know the illustration has earbuds. They were convenient for the photo. You still need real headphones for vocal overdubbing.

Koz

Large, sealed on the head headphones are required for vocal overdubbing. https://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/lin-manuelMicrophone.jpg Earbud variations don't work very well. You need to be recording from a real microphone, not a software device or service. This is a problem if you like to record...

The MP3 and the FLAC will be the same sound quality, but you're stuck with the loss-less formats forever. The instant you make a new MP3 or any of the compressed formats the sound quality will go down, no matter what you do in the middle. You can't "fix" an MP3 that way. The audiobook peop...

You can use Overdubbing. Use the mono performance as a backing track and speak into a new track. Push them together into a stereo show with performance on the left and your time reading on the right. https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/tutorial_recording_multi_track_overdubs.html There's also SMPTE ...

I don't hear any distortion at "and," roughly four seconds, but I do hear some odd recording-in-a-box tones. Was this environment or studio changed from the last time? I don't recall this effect, other than the first samples which had heavy room reverberation. Is this one of the DeVerb plu...

I will definitely start recording in stereo from now on, though! That only works if your microphone has two elements inside (a stereo microphone) or you're using two microphones. Audacity can't record from two USB microphones at once. You know you're in trouble when: -- You start a recording sessio...

record separately just before beginning to record a chapter I bet you're expecting this to be simple.... You may not Generate Silence. Full Stop. It has to be an actual microphone with an actual room, etc. Room Tone should match the show. Any time you stop talking for any amount of time (theatrical...