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I still had a problem with getting to acceptable floor noise level. Right. Home performers never meet noise. -60dB (ACX Limit) in English means your background noise (room tone) has to be a thousand times quieter than your voice, and the actual working number is -65dB, almost half again quieter. Ap...

Meanwhile, from up the post.


So "Noisy" is from your H2n into Audacity and "Clean" is the H2n into GarageBand? If not, where did you get clean from?

Koz

the dynamic mic would solve some mouth sounds that my condenser mic was picking up.

I know how that works. That's how I failed my ACX audition. Nice voice, perfect sound file, noisy mouth.

Koz

Place the Procaster so the end is pointing toward you and use oblique placement (B). https://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/ObliquePlacement4.png Use half a shaka spacing. Get close. I know that's the wrong type of microphone. Yours is end-fire not side-fire. https://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix...

Need to drop for a while. I isolated some of the tones in the beep, but this will be tons easier with a full ten seconds of good quality beeping. I can't wait for that volume change test.

Koz

Here's a WAV. It's short, but hopefully enough. Dueling posts. The other forum extreme is going so fast we're stepping on each other's messages. Beeping Noise Direct to SD Zoom H2N.wav That is so not good news. This is me searching for others with the same experience. I'm also going to leave a note...

I thought it was recording the internet but it was the microphone that was picking up the speaker. Bingo! That's normal. That's the natural sound pathways. Play stuff to you and then record stuff from you. If you have new, unique machines, you can Google your brains out to find out how to do it wit...

ACX's own AudioLab services.

.....which are here.

https://www.acx.com/audiolab

According to ACX, successful audiobook readers need to have a bluejeans jacket, be nearsighted, and have no hair. I hope you qualify.

Koz

Missed one. I spent a LOT of time getting plug-ins to help more easily reach ACX's specs. You may not have needed a lot of time. Unless you're talking about suppressing popping, mouth noises, and odd distortions, basic ACX conformance can be reached with three Audacity internal tools. https://www.ko...

It's hard to get across how tiny microphone signals are. Manufacturers have been trying to make that difference vanish for years with their MIC/LINE connection on the side of a laptop. "It's fine. Don't worry about it." It's not fine. If you do the decibel conversion arithmetic (as I know ...