Audacity Forum

Actually, there is a suggested application process. I need to go back and look for it. The concept of recording (audiobooks??) is massively more complex than it seems. The microphone makers assure us we need to buy their microphone, sit down at the kitchen table and crank out audiobooks. Quite a num...

Effect > Change Speed and Effect > Change Rhythm. Select the whole song by clicking just right of the up arrow. http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/JusttRightOfTheUpArrow.jpg Effect > Change Speed has the same effect as the speed control on a turntable. Speed, Pitch, Rhythm, Everything goes up an...

Good idea and concept, messy on execution. The idea is to record the work (and cut it down to size if needed—that much editing is allowed). Then File > Export > Export as WAV . Screen Shot 2019-03-09 at 12.29.05.png Audacity does not Save sound files. You sent an Audacity Project Manager Text File (...

If your chapters are under, I think it's 37 minutes each, you should be able to open a chapter and apply Mastering and DeEsser. Run ACX Check to see how you did. It should even sound good. This is assuming you have prepared your chapters with room tone "silence" at the beginning and end ac...

I don't think there's anything wrong with a Yeti. If it and the computer get along (yours seems to) and I think I found a good way to tame it's excessive crispness, it should be good to go. I applied AudioBook Mastering and the clip easily meets technical standards. Steckler-Mastered.wav https://wik...

You can match a live performance to whatever you recorded. If the show is stereo and your intro is mono (one blue wave), Duplicate the track (Control-D) and then using the top panel on the left > Make stereo track. Now export and that should slide right into a stereo edit. You should not be doing pr...

I don't hear anything particularly bad. Can you post some guitar and noise before you did anything to it?

Koz

ACX Check requires roughly 3/4 second of "clean" background noise or "Room Tone" to give you a good reading. In general, you can't take that from between words or paragraphs in a performance. If you play the areas between sentences slowly and carefully, they all have you gasping...

@deborah1217

So there you have it. When you post audiobook-mastering.txt Macro on the forum, include a line at the top starting with a hash character (#) and including version, date, etc.

Thanks,

Koz

putting the "#" at the start makes it easier for a person to identify.

And guards against typing a valid command by mistake.
We assume.
Koz