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requirements of -18 to -12dB.

Or even -18dB to -23dB.

Caffeine deprivation.

Koz

Zero is maximum loudness and it gets quieter as the negative number gets larger. Your background noise level should be -60dB or quieter (-65dB is good) and your voice should land between -18 dB (louder) and -23dB (quieter). -26dB is too quiet. However it's usually not a matter of boosting your volum...

Your turn. Write about your experiences submitting tests and your interaction with ACX (assuming that's your target).

Koz

One caution about that. Effect > Filter Curve doesn't always call the right curve in a Macro. You're usually fine if you never use Audacity for anything else that needs different curves. Maybe I sound like an airport announcer anyway That occurred to me about the third listen. Maybe I'm correcting s...

Sorry. Missed one.


Koz

Not all of those tools are built-into Audacity. You'll have to install RMSNormalize, HumRemover, and DeEsser. Close-talking microphones with dense SS and SHSH sounds. It is possible you sound that way normally when you're ordering a cuppa from Tesco. Not everybody's vocal oddities are an automatic r...

I got the last one to pass ACX Check ... ACXCheckDamian.png ... but that's only the first test for audiobooks. From there it goes on to Human Quality Control and I think you won't make it past that. You sound like an air traffic controller for the same reasons they sound like air traffic controllers...

Now burn a new test using this formula. You can use the same words you used in the first two tests, but that quiet room tone two seconds at the beginning is very important. Do Not process anything. Read down the blue links. They're very short. https://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/TestClip/Record_A_Cl...

Desktop > Go > Utilities > Activity Monitor. ActivityMonitor.png I leave the app down in my Dock along with other programs. I run it when I think there's something funny going on. Several times I found a stuck or mis-directed application or process taking up 99% of the machine. We are warned agains...

You want a Software CD. Start at the beginning and play the whole thing, or skip forward or backward to a named chapter and play everything from then to the end. You can do that with web coding. iTunes can do that with playlists. Screen Shot 2020-04-13 at 17.11.11.png Jump in anywhere and it will pl...