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I can force the clip to pass ACX Technical Conformance, but it still sounds like talking into a wine glass; harsh, piercing sibilance and pumping background noise. All typical of a normal laptop microphone.

That can also happen if the clip we have is mastered badly. So we need to know that.

Koz

Was that test clip before you did anything to it?

Koz

Denied. Cool..this can't end well. That's safe. If this was ACX, they almost always post comments and suggestions along with the rejection. What were they? Just from first pass of your test clip, it has compression distortion from the laptop built-in Noise Reduction and Echo Cancellation. That give...

I should save as WAV files before I finish editing Export a WAV file before you start . The raw, unedited performance. There should be no condition where you have to record the performance again including Audacity or the computer crashing during editing. All these backups seem like overkill for a s...

ACX Check appears under Analyze, not Effect. A note when you do get it to work, ACX Check needs about 3/4 second of clean background sound (Room Tone) to give a good Noise measurement. You can't just point it at any spoken word performance. The background sound has to be "clean." No gaspin...

That's unfortunate. I found two glitches (of the many). Screen Shot 2018-10-23 at 19.29.18.png Screen Shot 2018-10-23 at 19.33.04.png Those sharp vertical transitions are places where the computer stopped following the show. If they're big enough, they sound like a tick or pop and they're pretty com...

How did you become "cursed" with a Behringer mixer? If you don't want it I'll take it. Really, it's no trouble.

Koz

You may be "stuck" with your larger mixer. See where it allows you to assign USB and main mix to headphones and at the same time turn USB to Main off? Screen Shot 2018-10-23 at 16.37.52.png That's your overdubbing setup. But try the smaller mixer first. They insist you can listen to your U...

Alexis Multimix 4 USBFX. I looked at the instructions and they seem to suggest you can leave USB To Mix unselected and use the mixer as a USB monitor or microphone live monitor. They never quite get around to saying you can do it both at once. Try it. Many larger mixers are just six, eight and twel...

met all Submission Requirements That's the robot. It works in a similar way to our ACX Check program. Also, I bet they can tell other specifications such as file sizes, lengths of presentation, etc., completely automatically. Billions of people submit sound tests every ten minutes and they need a q...