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I tried to fix it

"Fix it" doesn't get us close enough. What part doesn't work? Download, Rename, Install, Apply?

Koz

Listening with my ears now (the best way, I found). You have a pronounced sibilance and are hitting your S sounds hard. I applied DeEsser at these settings and it tamed the crispness. The tool is sensitive to volume, so do it after mastering. https://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Audiobook_Mastering ht...

I'm working in the field right his second, so I can't listen, but I didn't have any trouble mastering your work to ACX Audiobook Technical Compliance. I pushed modest noise reduction in there just to be sure. Again, I can't tell what you or your background sounds like. I'll do that a bit later. But ...

Nancy Cartwright, a short American lady once reduced a Buckingham Palace guard to rubbish by walking up to him and turning into Bart Simpson.

The acting part is rough. Interpretation, swing, emphasis and tone. All difficult to put in an effect, even if you do get the pitch and volume right.

Koz

So you use Skype or other chat or conference app? Do you leave it running in the background when you record? Those can do it, too. Restart the machine and only start Audacity. That appears to be chat auto noise reduction or environment suppression. Windows, odd system setups or chat apps can all do ...

Go down the blue links in that post. They're very short.

Koz

That 6dB drop (half) between stereo and mono waves may be normal in your system. That's the system "making room" for the addition of left and right to make mono. The bottom trace in your illustration is almost normal. Push the volume control all the way up on the 2i2, record in stereo and ...

There is a desperation method of boosting microphone volume with the application of a Cloud Lifter between the microphone and the interface or mixer. You won't be doing that because the Lifter "uses up" the 48 volt phantom power leaving nothing for NT1-A. So this has to work with no tricks...

OK, this may take some time. Scarlett 2i2 Gen-3 has "modes," and you have to understand what they are and how to use them. Apparently, it "marries" itself to the computer and the Scarlett software and registration system. I have no idea what the "AIR" setting does and n...

Rode NT1-A? Rode makes many microphones.

The NT1-A is a side-fire, directional microphone and you should be speaking into the grill just above the gold dot.

Which 2i2? Apparently there are three of them. Generation 3 has adjustments new to me. I need to find a manual.

Koz