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Manual Mastering is not a surgical exercise. The tools for the most part are "sticky" and the action values stay around, pass after pass. As an example: Effect > Limiter: Soft Limit, 0, 0, -3.5dB, 10, No > OK. That's what limiter looks like on the first pass. This is what it looks like on ...

There are two immediate problems with Chains. It's possible, if you're a regular user of Audacity to automate Effect > Equalization so much it stops working. That's one reason Equalization as a formal effects tool vanished in the latest Audacity. The job didn't go away, but how you get there did. Yo...

I did the mastering manually and added two noise reduction steps, Reduction and Gate. Cecilia20secMastered-NR-Gate .wav Screen Shot 2019-12-12 at 7.47.14.png Does that sound OK to you? I'll detail how I did it. Here's another short clip with the room noise intentionally boosted for analysis. If you ...

"When face to face...."

I would kill to get the raw performance three times longer and in WAV. Keep reading the script.

Or any raw performance at 18 to 20 seconds. And don't smack your lips in the two seconds of silence. That's supposed to be, you know, silent. Hold your breath.

Koz

We may have a word problem. Chains and Macros are things, not metaphors. The older Audacity had an automated programming language that was called Chains and the newer Audacity calls the same process Macros. You're not using either of those, right? You're talking about an orderly sequence of tools? S...

tonight I have to use a much longer chain to get it to pass the ACX check Post the chain list. We can't see what you're doing. The Chain clip has serious popping and knocking during hard vowels. "Plosives." The original clip sounds more or less normal to me. This is Cecilla Ping with Audi...

How about you set your MBP and iPhone next to each other in a quiet room and do an acoustic dub? The sound comes out of the bottom of my iPhone and my MBP microphone is behind the grill just left of the Shift Key. MBP-Record-iPhone.jpg Pick a quiet room because the MBP will record everything. Start ...

there is this weird little "ping" Send some of it to the forum. Identify it. "After the words at 3 seconds," for example. It's not shocking if your speaker or headphone system is making up its own noises and your voice is actually fine. Are you using wireless earbuds? That's not...

This is where the conspiracy theories pop up. Apple went into overload with requests to "upgrade downward" that they pushed out a Hidden Auto Update to make it easier.

Koz

that seems to have made the difference. You can use reflected sound from the desk to make your performance louder, but you do have to pay attention. If your microphone is on a little stand, it might also change the voice tones making them honkier. This is what we're trying to get rid of with the bl...