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That's likely a hardware error called DC Offset. Audio is always supposed to average out to zero (middle) no matter how loud or what the sound is. Screen Shot 2019-06-22 at 13.25.56.png Yours doesn't. If you absolutely have to use this tape player and interface, you can force it to work with a coupl...

...all you talk about is a macro side issue. Because that's the one we have a fighting chance of fixing. Your system is complex and those are always a real joy to service. Do you use Chat, Conference or Skype? Games? Without going over the old posts again, is it a laptop? Do you like recording on-l...

Anyway to figure this out in audacity? Certainly. That's why a sound test would be handy. Straight spectrum analysis doesn't tell the whole story which is why straight equalization gives muffled readings and appropriate DeEssing can sound terrific—all with the same spectrum. In some cases we can ju...

http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/TestClip/Record_A_Clip.html Are all your drives local? No cloud or Network Connected? Nothing leaps out at me except the 9 hour thing. Audacity holds a show in 44100 (unless you changed it), uncompressed, but not regular 16-bit, but 32-bit Floating. That's so you ...

Sometimes defining the problem is over half the battle. Can you produce a 20 second voice test using this formula? http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/TestClip/Record_A_Clip.html In your particular case, lean heavily on SS and TT words. "Sister Suzy...etc." Don't go nuts. Just include enoug...

The only way I ever got the classic DeEsser to work and sound reasonable is to run a mono (one blue wave) voice track through our audiobook mastering suite first. https://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Audiobook_Mastering It's only three tools. Scroll down to PROCESS. The suite's job is to horse whateve...

I thought you were going for a full-on performance test submission. It's pretty unusual for anyone to get access to ACX engineering. Do you have all the rules for a full-on audiobook submission test? Have you been through that whole web page of question and answers? It's not just cut a five minute s...

You can get errors like that if you try to use punctuation marks in your filename other than -dash- and _underscore_. Today is not 6/20/19. It's 2019-06-20. No slashmarks.

Koz

Same tool. Effect > Amplify with a negative number in the top setting will reduce the volume. -17dB is louder than-18dB. Your presentation is too loud. The audiobook specification is -18dB (louder) to -23dB (quieter). Hit it somewhere between those. We publish an audiobook mastering suite that guara...

i can record but NOT hear myself. If you're recording live speech, it may not do any good even if you could. Playthrough from Audacity is always late. You will always hear an echo or delay in the headphone signal by listening to the computer. What you are intended to do is listen to the device or m...