Audacity Forum

One more. Audacity likes to default to 32-bit floating in Preferences. Some sound programs don't like that. Change to 16-bit and do production in that -- or convert to 16 before you Export.

Koz

MP3 compression has adjustments. You can make really small sound file sizes, but the music will sound terrible. Audacity 1.2 makes you change compression numbers in Preferences. I believe Audacity 1.3 lets you change it at the export step. Fuzzy numbers: 256 is good quality for a stereo show. 125 is...

http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/just_voice_ChrisCompressor.wav This is Chris's Compressor applied with the compression ratio changed from 0.5 to 0.77 (heavier compression) and the Max Amplitude reduced from 0.95 to 0.9. The effect is most noticeable in Audacity. The playback meter spends a lot mo...

Oh, and we quote the ten to one production numbers to producers who naturally assume that a three minute piece takes three minutes. They're horrified. Then we tell them that's an average.

Koz

I cranked through the clean voice track. I think you're at the limit of what you can do with what you have. I can't find anything wrong with it. There's a good deal less room slap in the track than I thought I was going to find. The furniture quilts worked. This may be where you step gingerly into a...

Was the voice actor acting? Sometimes you have to tie their arms to their sides so they don't emote too much. Bobbing and weaving is Not Good in voice capture. This is rough now. You're right at the edge of I can't help any more. Random Silly Notes: -- The grownups would be mixing and composing the ...

Dueling postings. I haven't heard your voice track yet.
Koz

Are you beginning to appreciate the ten to one rule? A three minute piece takes thirty minutes of production. Another editorial oddity is that everything you did in that thirty minutes is devoted to making it seem like you didn't do anything. You know you succeeded when the final sounds like the act...

Oh, that's just vastly better! No crunchy distortion or peak cracking. Clear and crisp with good expression. I know you went nuts patching it together. That's OK. I can't tell what you did. That's how Editorial is supposed to work. I'm going to listen four or five more times, but just the fact that ...

A classic HiFi turntable -- no USB -- has RCA cables coming out of the bottom but you can't plug one directly into an amplifier. The sound delivered has intentional distortion in it (RIAA) to make the vinyl pressing process work out better. Place a Photo Preamplifier between the turntable and the am...