Audacity Forum

I promise to only drive on the freeway after my seizure.

Koz

Found it. https://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?p=366074#p366074 The DeEsser defaults are not the best and that's the set I use. One shortcoming of the DeEsser is the need to produce the voice track first, before you apply the tool. That's what the audiobook mastering suite is doing. That's n...

The presentation has "ice pick in the ears" sibilance and "essing." I can well imagine what listening to that on headphones would be like. You also have compression (talking into a milk jug or wine glass) distortion. This is quite a low quality 56kbps export. Oddly, that's not it...

There are some fuzzy rules to this forum thing. It's not a terrific idea to respond to a million year old posting even if your problem is "Just Like" someone else's. Similar posts are rare as gold and yes, you can fall off the forum, although that's rarer than you think. New Posts are mode...

it's about getting the precise RMS one wants

And it's exactly there you leave us in the dust. Audacity isn't for scientists. It will make them crazy. Audacity routinely makes decisions on whether something will sound good, not whether it's scientifically accurate.

Koz

Processing music is seriously difficult and you might want to consider other techniques altogether. No word on whether Chris's Compressor is still alive or not. Chris Capel wrote that so he could listen to opera in the noisy car. It has a lot of the same characteristics as broadcast compressors—almo...

waiting with baited breath..

And past that you should be waiting to post their results and comments here, no matter what they are.

Koz

as I've said only upgrades

Nobody wrote anywhere you can't have more than one problem.

Koz

It will take a while to test the "start from zero" strategy

I don't know where else to go with that. How do you get US mains hum in the UK?

Koz

record by my voice with microphone. What microphone and how is it connected? Pretend I want to buy one. Sound files take a lot of room, much more so than simple text files, for example. How much room is there on the machine? Start > Computer > INFO something like that. https://www.lifewire.com/how-...