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I think they caught you artificially manipulating your noise levels. ACX Check measures the quietest thing it can find. That would be the area before the first word which measures -84dB. However, your real noise floor is probably at 14 seconds which, depending on exactly where you measure is -59dB. ...

because it is too low to listen to. How are you listening? Many of the Audacity volume tools stop boosting volume when there is any chance of distortion. That's why nothing wants to go over 0.0. You can have odd problems such as listening to a phonograph transfer and Audacity is concerned about the...

(obviously, Audacity has this info — or it wouldn't be able to save the file in the same place each time). Maybe not like you think. Yes, Audacity keeps track of location information, but nothing else. Audacity converts the incoming file to its own internal file system. That's why there is no CLIP ...

Which audiobook mastering process are you using?
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I record for audible/ACX. You potentially might be recording for ACX? ACX Check doesn't detect a thing. If you have no background noise/silence/Room Tone in the clip, ACX Check will pick the quietest thing it can find and measure that. When it does that you can get wildly high and bad noise reading...

I'm ... shocked to hear how much Roll Off has neutralised. Did I miss the boat there? Are you complaining that Low Rolloff took the low, rumbly bass notes from your voice? If you have low, rumbly bass notes in your voice, then yes, it does that. You can try an alternative filter instead of Effect >...

all my narration sounds monotone and flat. A pleasant, dynamic, interesting reading style is the reason you write checks to a professional announcer/actor. Audacity can't change the 'theater' part of the work. If you're trying to do Hamlet in a monotone, we can't help you. You are also strongly adv...

Low Rolloff is step one in the Audiobook Mastering 4 Suite. https://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=96103 The suite is designed so the tools clean up after each other and taking them out of order or leaving any out is not recommended. Depending on your recording/announcing/presenting...

Most people hate mouth ticking, popping and other mouth plosives, but there is some discussion about breathing. I don't know ACX has ever complained about normal breath sounds and they sound perfectly natural to me. Since it would take a million years to suppress each one, I would leave them in and ...

Totally better. You sound like a pro announcer or someone sitting next to me telling me a story. Pretty much exactly what ACX likes. You should know you pass ACX Check with just the three tools: LF Rolloff, RMS Normalize and Limiter. Pass it pretty well, too. Noise at -67.7 which is noise values I u...