Audacity Forum

The black or blue line is the desire and the green line is what Audacity is actually going to do. In the equalizer tool, the Length of Filter slider controls the steepness of the curve. What's the goal? Frequencies are not a thing. A frequency is a rate of change and things don't go from dead zero t...

They want me to prerecord the segment and send it to them as an MP3 file. Did they give you any more direction than that? There was a posting from a home broadcast producer who complained that the station could broadcast his efforts, but then couldn't make the on-line version of the show because of...

If you never closed Audacity, you should be able to Edit > UNDO your way back to the original show. Audacity forms UNDO by making complete copies of the whole show. The down side of that is an UNDO that always works in reverse order. If you closed Audacity in the middle, that may be the end of the w...

It was low roll-off specifically that I was using Fair Warning the three tools in Audiobook Mastering 4 are designed to be used together. They are a suite, a "harmoneous grouping." More crudely, they mop up after each other. https://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=96103 Lo...

Missed a step. We publish Audiobook Mastering 4 which is basically three tools that push your presentation into ACX technical compliance—except for noise. There is another whole series of postings what to do if you fail noise. https://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=96103 Also note a...

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The regular Yeti is a USB microphone. How long is the connecting cable? Audio doesn't like going down long USB cables. If you have troubles with clicking, popping, snapping or small sections of sound actually missing, that cable is the first place to look.

Koz

And should I drape the wooden table I would. Reflections from the table can affect the timber of your voice. The drape also suppresses table thumping and script shuffling noises. In addition to suspending the microphone, do you have a "spider" vibration isolator and pop/blast filter? This...

RMS Normalize and Limiter don't do anything if they're not needed, but Equalize will double apply. If Equalize reduced 100Hz by 3dB (for example) applying it twice will reduce 100 Hz by 3dB more . In the specific case of Low Rolloff for Speech , you may get away with that because the tool is designe...

You hit the jackpot of having two difficulties, so you need two corrections in addition to plain, ordinary audiobook mastering. I elected to use Mordrid2 equalization correction instead of DeEsser because Mordrid2 is not volume dependent whereas DeEsser is. DeEsser may give you different correction ...

Right then. I did extensive analysis with a strong cup of tea (not on the tea. I know what's in there) and determined something in your microphone system is boosting certain voice tones. Goodness knows why, but that's what's giving you the "essing" and crisp, harsh delivery. So I build a c...