Audacity Forum

I just sent a mono 28 minute voice presentation (one blue wave) through classic, legacy DeEssing and it took just over three minutes. This is a MacBook Air sitting in the back yard and with the FireFox browser running. The machine has a solid state drive and I restarted it...I think last night for a...

DeEssing is very computer intensive. Does everybody have a solid-state drive in their machines? If you try to do this job with a busy machine or one with older spinning metal drives, it could take until the sun cools off. Busy counts, too. Does it help if you restart the machine and don't let anythi...

Yes. Nobody passes ACX Noise easily in a home studio and you usually can't make up for a noisy room with post production effects such as The Dreaded Noise Reduction. It's almost impossible to make up for room echoes, ever. I measured one tiny part of the performance background noise as -80dB. Nobody...

Recorded something on my iPhone voice memo app but when I upload it Audacity (converted MP3 or 4 to Wav) it plays back all distorted What was the something? If you're recording a live band, very few people come away from those with a clean recording. I've had very good luck with Voice Memo, but I k...

Post a sample of the work. Drag-select about 10 seconds of stereo (two blue waves) or 20 seconds of mono (one blue wave). Export it as WAV (Microsoft) 16-bit and post it here. From a forum text window > Attachments > Add Files. Screen Shot 2019-04-29 at 7.43.24.png Most singing performances go throu...

Windows Snipping Tool

Start > All Programs > Accessories > Snipping Tool

Koz

@ BuckGodot

write down or screen grab the settings.

On a Mac, it's Shift-Command-3 for a whole screen and Shift-Command-4 to draw a box around the work.



I'm not sure how to do it on Windows.

Koz

@ BuckGodot How would I use the RMS Normalize in this lineup? You may not need to. RMS Normalize is an automated version of Normalize which you're already using. The goal is to produce a paid product using as few steps as possible. How many books have you published? Which processes have you used bef...

@ BuckGodot It's magic and does wondrous things to my audio for my books. We need to find out what Voxformer is doing. We need someone to do an experiment. Announce a test according to this formula. It's 20 seconds long. http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/TestClip/Record_A_Clip.html Follow the formu...

That works. I applied ACX Mastering and added very gentle Noise Reduction of the Beast (6, 6, 6). Screen Shot 2019-04-29 at 3.23.42.png Clone-Mastered.wav Everything from here is down to personal reading style and maybe the smallest touch of room echo. There's no filters or effects for either of tho...