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Missed one. When you get your edit master, export that as a WAV (Microsoft) 16-bit sound file. Only then export the MP3 sound file for publication. Yes, MP3 does create very minor sound damage, but that's the way they want it.

Koz

That's what I thought. I got no trouble listening to a story in that voice and I don't think anybody else will, either. Side issues: Most voice production is in mono, one blue wave and not stereo, two blue waves. When you finish with the reading and push the file over, make a safety copy somewhere. ...

You can have magic problems if you have ratty or erratic USB. If the music connection stutters or dies briefly when Audacity is connected to it, Audacity will "forget" the connection and make you establish it again. If it just stops working, Audacity > Transport > Rescan. Then open the lit...

Quiet Whisper app and the avg is around 38.6 Which, since it's a positive number, is probably dBSPL. I don't speak dBSPL (Sound Pressure Level) very well, but I assume it's really quiet. So you win. This can still go into the dirt. All Mastering 4 does is make you pass ACX Technical Conformance. Af...

As DVDDoug above, you have two problems. The combination of RMS (loudness) and Peak is out of range with each other and the Noise is too low. The only way you can get noise that quiet is to mess with it. ACX hates messing with it. Start with the raw reading (no processing at all) and apply Audiobook...

How does the bouncing sound meter work? That one should follow your work much better. That's the one you watch for volume quality during a recording. Cranking through the graphics processing to make the blue waves is processor heavy. You can click and drag the sound meters much bigger (and wider) so...

it's cool to read from any material that is in the public domain, yeah? You can read whatever you want, you can't sell it to anybody. That and the forum has some strict rules against marketing and promotion. There's a sideletter to that. It's usually a good idea to do what a forum elf asks. If you ...

There is one other case for paying attention to the knob. You set up for a second show and the knob got bumped from where it was last time. In That Case, knowing where the knob was is valuable. This is obsessive engineer talking. But in all cases check the sound meters before you shoot anything. Koz

I saw my levels go into the yellow and even red, so I think 80 is too high. There is no "80." The only time you pay attention to the position of the knob is if it's all the way up or down. All other times you report the bouncing sound meter. If your voice is too crazy and gives peaks into...

Edit > UNDO? Audacity has a pretty robust UNDO system. It remembers the whole show every time you make an action. There are two downsides: It takes a lot of room and you can only UNDO in order. The upside is each UNDO is independent of all the others. That help? It's generally a bad idea to Record >...