Audacity Forum

high itch squeeks in my audio?

What's your audio? What are you recording?

Koz

Thanks for your posts and replies. Are you recording your voice? I don't think we ever established that. One last try. Post some of the distorted work. Include some background noise and then some voice. You can follow this formula. Use any words. You don't have to use Hudson Valley Cows. https://www...

I prefer to use at least two mics on an upright piano However, don't rush out and get a second USB microphone. Audacity will only record from one. The instant you need more than one microphone the recording system becomes a lot more complicated. This is one of the surprises/shocks when New Users cr...

Found it.





Koz

Do I record at a lower volume by manually turning the volume knob down on the microphone That's my guess. Try it. Consult your instructions. It's possible you can't adjust Audacity because it goes into fixed gain with a USB device. There might be settings in Windows. I'm not a Windows elf. little s...

I recorded a bunch of chapters It's possible to submit a short voice test to ACX to make sure you're not burning permanent, fatal errors into your chapters. It's not obvious you can do that from the published instructions. That can save a lot of work. "I spent months reading my book....."...

Sometimes it still works on very small files (two minutes or so), but never on larger files. That may be the hint right there. ACX Check has to load your work into free memory to do the analysis. If there is no memory left because your machine is too busy, that's a problem. Side note: Do you use an...

You get change from $2k

Or you can just write a check and have somebody else produce the work for you. No hardware storage problems. Marie Kondo would be proud.

Koz

It appears that my ASUS laptop has a headphone jack receptor that's about 1/8 inch. In case we missed the boat here. You can't use the laptop sound to listen to yourself perform. Yes, it does help with automatic volume control and quality assurance, but the laptop connection is always going to have...

Do you have a car? One of the production people showed up at work with remarkably good clear voice tracks and I asked him how he did it. "The back of my Toyota," he said.

Koz