Audacity Forum

The system has two goals. It has to pass the ACX specifications for technical quality and it has to sound exactly like you. The ACX philosophy is that it has to sound like someone telling you a fascinating story over cups of tea. That last part may seem obvious, but many people find an insane urge t...

sorry to be a bit frazzled. It's a bit more complicated than buy a microphone, plunk it down on the kitchen table and whip out an audiobook, no matter what the ads say. My joke is to read books, make a fortune and retire to a tasteful villa on Côte d'Azur. You may have loused up the joke. Hard to b...

Let's see you're still using the slightly older mastering, so you will still be using RMS Normalize (later Audacity versions have a built-in one called Loudness Normalization ). This is the hum remover I'm using. de-hum.ny It shows up in Audacity as " Hum Remover ." I posted the settings. ...

SiddharthasampleBEST.aup AUP isn't a sound file. It's a list of instructions to tell Audacity how to put your show together from all that stuff in the _DATA folder. That's where the actual sound is—in little pieces. This is one complete Audacity Project. https://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/MyMus...

There are no obvious voice distortions caused by echoes or other wall, ceiling reflections. So your studio seems to work. Can you breathe in there? That's the only significant problem with closet studios. Oh, there is one more. There's a famous story of an audiobook performer who locked herself into...

Extra points if you can read that all in one breath. [gasp] Catskill Farms..... I got the file to pass Audiobook standards, but it took a little effort to get there. It should sound exactly like you except very slightly louder and passing audiobook standards. First I used the Audiobook Mastering Sui...

I wouldn't have completed this project without your support

Glad you're working. I'll add that to my List Of Things That Can Go Wrong.

Koz

exporting audio in MP3 format to Audacity 2.4.1 Starting there, see if it's possible to save the work in anything but MP3. WAV? MP3 gets its convenient, small files by creating intentional, hard to find distortion. So it's not a good format to use in the middle of production. leaving the low dronin...

Do you think this sample is any more consistent?

You know the tricks now. Can you make it loop?

Koz

There's quite a bit of white noise in the background

Correct. Because you also turned off Noise Reduction. If it is plain rain-in-the-trees noise (shshshshsh) you can use Audacity Noise Reduction to suppress it.

Koz