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This is my hair standing up.

13 Hz is in the Alpha Brain Wave range. Do you have any enemies in the US State Department? CIA?

Koz

One other note. A spectrum analysis of the buzz has a spectacular peak at 13Hz. Way louder than any of the other tones in the buzz. 13Hz is not audible and so wouldn't show up on speakers or headphones. It's also not naturally caused by anything I know of. I'm more than ever curious what's causing i...

Are you in the US?

Koz

Is the buzz audible on the solo headphone connection? Turn the headphone and microphone volumes all the way up.

The solo has an instrument connection and volume control—Number 2. Is that all the way down?

Koz

Do you have one single XLR cable between the Rode and the Solo? No adapters? http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/XLR-Cable-500.jpg If so, you can go "trolling for noise." Move the microphone around the room listening via headphones as you go. Set Audacity for monitor mode where it activates...

Don't fall in love with the MP3 format. MP3 adds compression distortion to your voice and it gets worse the more production you do. ACX demands submission in MP3 format, but that's a business decision, not a sound quality one. They have to store your work on their servers which they have to pay for....

We're still underwater and now it is CHIPMUNKS who are there instead of the speaker who REALLY gave the conferences! Is this what happens at 44100? No. That's what happens when you convert from 32000 to 44100 the wrong way. Don't use the sample rate settings to the left of the blue waves. Instead u...

I bet you're wondering why we're obsessing about this problem. You're right. Nobody can hear 8Hz. We in California call those earthquakes, but the audiobook mastering tools work on whatever sound shows up, whether or not you can hear it. Having earthquake tones is a good way to throw off the volume ...

There is one other thing. I had a hum problem in my 'studio' and before I found where it was coming from, I moved the microphone around the room and found the one place where it was almost gone. I pushed several sound tests through that configuration. You can listen to the computer in monitor mode a...

further soundproofing the closet Low pitch hum is hard. I published a kitchen table studio if that's of any use to you. https://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?p=369938#p369938 That kind of thing may be enough. It doesn't produce a NASA Sound Chamber, but it does cut down on environment noises...