Audacity Forum

If you do need to yell as part of the show, there are pro techniques where you back away a little or yell off center so the microphone gets the stress in your voice without the sudden high volume.

Koz

Your readings are slightly hotter or higher volume than is probably good. See where your peaks are at -2.8dB (first reading). Those should hover around -6dB or so (quieter). With peaks that high, you can't have excitement or "yell" as part of the show. The sound track will overload and dis...

The specifications for raw reading and the ones for finished submission are different on purpose. Raw reading has to take into account the possibility of high voice volume and overload damage (very, very bad) and so the specification is quieter than the book submission. Live Reading Audio Peaks (tip...

I can't find anything taking about this... Because I think you have a celebrity unicorn. Either Trebor or I can come up with lists of ways you can get damage like this on recording. But not on playback and not only some conditions. Odd, tinny, mechanical sounds can happen when you're recording on a...

Not sure what that means Kos? I hear the noise too, but I had to crank up the volume on my speaker system to do it. In my opinion that doesn't count. If you dig enough, you can always find something wrong. But the object is not to dig. The object is to produce a saleable work that passes the standa...

Open one and then File New. Of course, that's on a Mac. I'm not sure how it works in Windows. Someone will post.

Koz

No, but I think you can open two instances of the same project. It's highly restricted. For example, you can't record four different audio channels, two here and two there.

Koz

You can find that the hard way by drilling down through the directory structure, but I just use GO from the top of the desktop. Screen Shot 2019-01-23 at 19.10.25.png Go > Go To Folder. Screen Shot 2019-01-23 at 19.05.28.png We publish an audiobook mastering process. If you work in a quiet, echo-fre...

What's the budget and do you have control over the wheels? Are they yours?

If you can't move the shoot to someplace quieter (and no echoes), this may be a challenging shoot.

Koz

We should note that the standard for background noises is some 13dB louder than your can opener. So you're already doing quite some better than the ACX cutoff. Balance that against needing to remember to perform all your corrections for each and every chapter.

Keep notes.

Koz