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Sounds fine to me Thank you. The goal is to sound ordinary . That's my silly joke about telling stories over cups of tea in the kitchen (although I wouldn't actually record in a kitchen). ACX is very clear that distractions are not welcome. Processing errors, tonal oddities, volume problems and bac...

I can't simply use the laptop's in built microphone? You can use that or any microphone, but it has to say so in Audacity Recording up in the tool bar. Screen Shot 2019-03-14 at 05.27.12.png That and Audacity > Preferences > Recording should have [_] playthrough... not selected. There's a mechanica...

You have to be recording from a real thing, not a fake software device. If you like recording from the internet, that's the exact setting that needs to be changed to get Audacity to overdub. For old example, Soundflower was a program that allowed Macs to record internet music. Soundflower isn't a re...

I keep a folder called Installers-Keys-Settings . Everything I download goes in there first and I install from there if possible. It gives me a running backup (and I do back it up) of everything I have. There's a folder called Firefox. It has installers and it has a safety copy of my bookmarks in tw...

The waves are tiny and could be louder. How far away are you? In general a Hawaiian Shaka for no blast screen. http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/HawaiianShakaSpacing-NoScreen-500t.jpg If you get further away, your voice volume will start to drop and mess up your noise measurement. If you get to...

Also, is anybody including the walk-through for the ACX passing recipe anywhere? There's the manual for Audiobook Mastering. https://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Audiobook_Mastering See: Process. That's a step-by-step. Those instructions are more involved than you would think because two of the tools...

This is the process for mastering. https://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Audiobook_Mastering At the end, I applied ordinary Noise Reduction at 6, 6, 6 values. https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/noise_reduction.html That would ACX pass and submit, but if that's a preventable noise, it should be prevent...

Meanwhile on the west coast. I applied Audiobook Mastering tools and got your clip to pass no trouble. Screen Shot 2019-03-13 at 18.36.46.png Sample for analysis-Mastered.wav There's two problems. You were a bit too expressive at 15 seconds. "Are you sittin' in the.." When you emote like t...

I put the hooks in so I could hang a moving pad over the window. Now I can record any time. This is a sound sample from the Zoom H4. MaxwellsCafe.mp3 I started it, set it on top of the paper towel roll in my quiet room and recorded the piece. I read from paper just like you see it in the illustratio...

I recorded in his unfinished basement that has either acoustic blankets or foam tiles over most of his walls and windows. So it was sound-deadened, more accurately. That's how I do it. I still have to record late because just enough traffic leaks through the window to make things difficult. But it'...