Audacity Forum

You are watching 12 seconds out of a show that's at least a minute and 12 seconds long. To see the whole show, Control-F for the Full timeline. Drag-select a portion of the show to Select it and Control-E to zoom into that selection.Those two and Zoom out a little bit Control-3 are the only three zo...

Since you have a stable platform now, there's a theatrical note. Many new readers get to the end of their first book, listen to the first few chapters, make a face and read them over again. The beginning of the book was read by a rank amateur. The book was finished by a seasoned professional. Althou...

I got the exact results you did on the ACX Check except the Noise Floor was 0.1dB lower.

Noise Reduction success depends on where you got the profile from and how much. One example is getting a little bit of voice in the profile by accident. Noise Reduction will try to remove your voice.

Koz

I’m sure other files and other vocal requirements will call for different settings, Maybe not so different. Mastering Suite is designed to get you past ACX technical requirements. The tools are integrated, automatic and if they're not needed, they don't do anything. You can change the suite when AC...

I choose the "Music" folder where I have downloaded many CDs I think you may be missing an important word. Music on a CD isn't in sound files. If you want to get the music from a Audio CD you have to "rip it" into sound files. Those should come across as perfect quality WAV (Mic...

I updated my web page to condense the mastering instructions.

Scroll down to the AudioBook Mastering Quick Notes box

http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/audacity.html

Koz

The actual error is 789:57:13.

It's not a time. It's an iTunes error code.

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Use a different sound format.

Koz

I think I could listen to that person read the phone book.

Koz

No, it's not simple. You are the recording engineer.

Koz

I'm trying to think if I missed anything. You should cut the show before mastering. Take out all the gaps and mistakes and that time you had to take the dog out. Then, when the rhythm and flow is exactly right, apply Mastering, Noise Reduction and DeEsser. It's not unusual for someone to record 10 o...