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Are you using a mastering technique, or are you reading straight into ACX? Most people can't read directly, so you would be a celebrity. Is there a backup of your work in WAV or other high quality format? It's a bad idea to mess with submission work without a backup. We publish an audiobook masterin...

ACX may be using a different technique to measure noise. We have had several people recently do everything right and still fail their noise tests. There is one item which can cause problems. You can have special noises such as the Yeti Curse or Frying Mosquitoes which can cause your ears to bleed ev...

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They have to be side by side in the same location or folder. You can't hide one inside the other as you did. Audacity will never unscramble that.

Koz

That is odd, but congratulations. Did you go through our Audiobook Mastering Suite before ACX rejected you? You never said those words. I'm guessing no because ACX Check is part of that protocol. If you only started using ACX Check in a way later step, then we could have saved you a lot of work. htt...

Isn't there a SELECT button over on the lower left of the track? I think that's the magic one.

Koz

The first file is without reduction. I suspect we need the one before that. You should follow this list. http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/TestClip/Record_A_Clip.html Don't Process Anything. Also in your submission, I can hear you moving, shuffling and slurping during the silent periods. Freeze an...

The engineer at ACX who replied to me implied that ANY noise reduction is bad They always say that. It's not unusual for new users to produce a crappy voice track at home and then try to rescue it by beating it up with processing. Nobody is going to pay money to hear you read a book in cellphone vo...

Condenser microphones have electronics inside. That's generally where the hissss noise comes from. If you can never get a combination of loudness and noise even close, then that may be the end of your Neewer. It's not unusual for people not to perform both RMS and Noise at the same time, but they ca...

Once you get a clean recording, one of the other elves may have some ideas for compression and processing.

Koz

Correct me, but the UR22 has no "normal" volume green lights? All it has is that one red PEAK light which turns red when it's too late. You should be careful with that "professional audio" assumption. Most people only hear pro singers after the company and experienced operators h...