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by kozikowski
Thu May 16, 2019 3:52 am
Forum: Audiobook Production
Topic: Is ACX Check Lying to Me?
Replies: 16
Views: 1342

Re: Is ACX Check Lying to Me?

a homemade mic box
How did you do that? I just published a workup on a Popular Mechanics version of a mic box.

viewtopic.php?p=369938#p369938

After I built that, I drank some beer, plowed the south forty and did a ring job on my '57 Chevy.

Koz
by kozikowski
Thu May 16, 2019 3:21 am
Forum: Audiobook Production
Topic: Is ACX Check Lying to Me?
Replies: 16
Views: 1342

Re: Is ACX Check Lying to Me?

Screen Shot 2019-05-15 at 20.06.25.png Screen Shot 2019-05-15 at 20.06.47.png Those were taken from a posting by someone who wrote back to us what the evaluation experience was like. https://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?p=349993#p349993 The MP3 goal is 192 Constant Bitrate minimum, Mono per...
by kozikowski
Thu May 16, 2019 3:02 am
Forum: Audiobook Production
Topic: Is ACX Check Lying to Me?
Replies: 16
Views: 1342

Re: Is ACX Check Lying to Me?

I then ran Mosquito Killer over the recording (to banish the Blue Yeti curse) The Yeti Curse (frying mosquitoes) is a bad interaction between the Yeti (typically) and the computer. The computer maker says: "We'll cut a few corners on the USB system because it's cheap and, hey, who's going to n...
by kozikowski
Wed May 15, 2019 10:57 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Severe Echo - can it be fixed?
Replies: 4
Views: 221

Re: Severe Echo - can it be fixed?

This is all four. The Four Horsemen of Audio Recording (reliable, time-tested ways to kill your show) -- 1. Echoes and room reverberation (Don't record the show in your mum's kitchen.) -- 2. Overload and Clipping (Sound that's recorded too loud is permanently trashed.) -- 3. Compression Damage (Neve...
by kozikowski
Wed May 15, 2019 10:29 pm
Forum: macOS
Topic: USB connected mic to Audacity for MAC
Replies: 85
Views: 6251

Re: USB connected mic to Audacity for MAC

does the software walk you through making them happy? The software doesn't have to be happy. The client has to be happy. The Audiobook Mastering system sometimes creates intentional distortion in the middle of the process. But only I, you and the studio audience knows that the distortion will be cl...
by kozikowski
Wed May 15, 2019 9:31 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Inserting audio
Replies: 2
Views: 120

Re: Inserting audio

do you need to re-record it?
I can think of a worse one. You have to re-record it in your voice and then make it sound like their voice.

Koz
by kozikowski
Wed May 15, 2019 6:47 pm
Forum: Audiobook Production
Topic: Too compressed Rejection
Replies: 25
Views: 3176

Re: Too compressed Rejection

Kitchen Table Sound Studio Revision 1 This is the parts list for the studio. Each of those eight plastic pipes is 20 inches long. No special parts or celebrities. They're half-inch PVC. Four corners, four end-caps and two heavy 80" x 72" furniture moving blankets. KitchenTableStudio-Parts...
by kozikowski
Wed May 15, 2019 11:59 am
Forum: Audiobook Production
Topic: Too compressed Rejection
Replies: 25
Views: 3176

Re: Too compressed Rejection

I will master and send to ACX again ACX wants all your chapters to match. I did the record early morning when it was really quiet. That leaves room echoes. I can give you the basic ideas very fast. 1/2" PVC Plastic Pipe. 72" by 80" Heavy Furniture Moving Pads. Four PVC Corners. Scree...
by kozikowski
Wed May 15, 2019 4:15 am
Forum: Audiobook Production
Topic: Too compressed Rejection
Replies: 25
Views: 3176

Re: Too compressed Rejection

All the file you've heard from me they're 320 !!! Excellent. I can't tell that from the information Sony publishes outside of the recorder. yes there is a set up to put the volume low Terrific. Again, that information is not available to me. I will master and send to ACX again Before you do that, I...