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"enhancements", (like noise/echo reduction), being applied by Windows What he said. Windows is a business program and it naturally assumes you want to make a conference call to the home office, not record a violin. So it naturally applies echo cancellation and noise reduction in the backg...

The original tracks are muted and remain as protection copies. Closer. Good computer hygiene tells us to be able to point to two different places that have valuable work. Thumb drives, external hard drives and Cloud Storage all count. That and don't use MP3 for anything until somebody forces you in...

Once you get all that resolved, you can make a little studio with blankets and towels. How handy are you? This is the commercial version. It works famously and folds up into a package you can take on a plane. https://voiceoveressentials.com/product/porta-booth-plus It's also overkill. There is a hom...

Oh, and you are cautioned against "making" background sound by Generate > Silence. That gives an obviously bogus sound and ACX Check will pass too good.

"Sorry, that noise level is impossible. What are you up to?"

Koz

I'm shootin' for the whole island! That's from a joke I had where your goal is to read audiobooks, make tons of money and retire to a nice cottage somewhere on French Rivera, say Côte d'Azur, Coq au Vin or Mal de Mer. Screen Shot 2018-11-04 at 18.10.53.png I don't need the whole island. You should ...

http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/clips/EchoSample.mp3 I hear two problems. You have a very live room and that's what makes it sound like talking in a bathroom. You also have compression distortion. That's harder. That can come from Windows processing, Excessive Noise Reduction or MP3 compression. The ...

I'd post a link but I'm afraid someone would think I was trying to self-promote.

Post it.

Koz

I can't find Mastering Four in the Help Manual. There's a terrific reason for that. I didn't write it for the Help Manual. It's a plain, standard forum posting just like yours. https://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=96103 Every so often I'll write something in a post that turns out...

This would be a grand time to find The Goal. Why are we doing this? Who gets the files? I would not, for example, send a FLAC file to a client in this lifetime, unless they specifically asked for one. Also, if you're skating that close to running out of storage, you're going to have a lot more probl...

WAV (Microsoft) 16-bit is the go-to format for production. The bitrate is 1411. The only shortcoming is the tiny dither signal that Audacity adds to exports to avoid filter and effects errors from accumulating. You may not want to, but you can turn that off. Audacity internally works at 32-floating...