Audacity Forum

Virtually all commercial recordings are compressed and/or limited. And that's why you have trouble making your live musical performance match a CD or download song. People think the songs are louder, but that's not enough. They're really "denser," appearing louder without significantly in...

My husband installed the ACX check for me Does that tell you where you should go for mastering help? The process is pretty straighforward. Do this, push that button. https://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Audiobook_Mastering The first major heading Custom Tools you already have. Second heading Setup , ...

We publish a mastering process, but if you can't install RMS-Normalise, that's not going to do much good. How did you install ACX-Check and not RMS-Normalize? Anyway, it's good to note that Peak and Noise are limits. Peaks no louder than -3dB and Noise no louder than -60db. RMS (Loudness) is the one...

Most clipping (digital overload) can't be fixed. It represents a portion of the song where the digital system didn't follow the show. There is no bringing it back, there's nothing to bring back. Even worse as you may have experienced, clipping make noise. Clicking, ticking, crunch. Don't fall in lov...

Truly sorry for not being able to help you track this all down right now.

You can understand how this would get our attention. "What do you mean you can't open your work in iTunes?" Or, "What do you mean I can't open iTunes work?"

Koz

Thank you for the two sound files. I have to wait until I get home to hear them.

We can't take effects and filters out of a performance, so we have to work with original recordings.

Koz

Now that I see the extension, what next? What are the extensions? If they're MP3, then your ripping software is taking the high quality WAV music from the CD and downconverting it to lesser quality MP3. That would normally be just OK for listening, but it starts to fall apart if you then want to do...

It's perfectly "legal" to make and distribute your own version of Audacity, so goodness knows what you have. This is the one from our download site.

https://www.audacityteam.org/download/

Koz

Or I got any chance to edit again the file raw I got and pass? Do you have the raw file from the Sony recorder? You may be able to correct it with the Audacity tools. Can you make a new recording? Please record and stay silent for two seconds and then speak for 18 seconds. Transfer that performance...

Is the show stereo (two blue waves) and is the MP3 mono (one blue wave). What is the show and how did you record it? In the MP3 export dialog, there is a new selector "[_] force stereo to mono." Do you have that ticked? As test only, Select the whole track by clicking just right of the up ...