Audacity Forum

How did you shoot the first book?

Koz

Here's a thing I read in a quiet room and mastered using our tools. I think I used a little noise reduction, too. It passes ACX.

This is what the sound file looks like.


Koz

I shot this on a stand-alone voice recorder. This is the story-teller, conversational tone.


It's clear, noise-free, sounds just like me and passes ACX Check after mastering.

Koz

has Dynamics issue (too compressed) if the problem is overload? Is this overload make compression? The short answer is yes. One of the reasons taxi radios, aircraft radios and police radios sound like they do is clipping and overload. Distortion sounds loud. The goal of these radios is to sound lou...

We also publish ACX Mastering. Three simple tools that guarantee Peak and RMS and if you were reading in a quiet room, Noise.

https://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Audiobook_Mastering

Koz

Also note through all that you still have to be able to read out loud. Do you routinely have people gather around you when you tell a story? Then you are a prime candidate for audiobook reading. If, however people run from you holding their ears...this process may be extended. We can't turn you into...

We publish ACX Check , a plugin which works very much like the testing Robot at ACX. They both check all the "hardware" specifications of your performance sound file: Peak, RMS and Noise and lists them. https://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Nyquist_Analyze_Plug-ins#ACX_Check http://kozco.com/...

If we didn't say so, sometimes Audacity will stop working and leave files by accident. The system sees those files and thinks Audacity is still working and won't start another one.

Koz

You may be missing a step.

Desktop > Go > Go To Folder




...then type in one of those addresses in that blue area.

Koz

it makes no difference

This is a forum. Users helping each other, not a help desk.

So this is where we wait for a different forum elf who may have a better idea on what's happening, or wait for someone who has the same problem you do.

Koz