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@christianw

I'm surprised you got Noise Gate to work. That's not a particularly well-behaved tool and worse, if you do anything wrong, ACX can hear artifacts. They hate processing artifacts.

Koz

An AUP is not a sound file. It's the Audacity Project manager text file. This is one of the problems you can have with Audacity Projects. Do a 20 second reading as you have been doing according to that simple format. File > Export > Export as WAV . The panel defaults to 16-bit Microsoft like this. S...

I would not be shocked if ACX Quality Control looks for irrational numbers like that and manually and very carefully measures noise rather than relying on the automation. It stated the requirement is a maximum of -60db noise floor. Yes, that's the specification, but what exactly did they say? Koz

Do you see the third reading down where it says noise is -233dB? That's impossible. Did one of the YouTube videos tell you to Generate Silence in your reading so you pass ACX? That's not a real background noise reading. The background noise in your performance is supposed to be measured by making a ...

I guess the manufacturers thought this audio thing isn't confusing enough...... My Shure X2U microphone interface arrives as " Shure Digital ," but the Behringer UM2 interface arrives as generic "USB Audio CODEC" . There is a trick to this. Look at the devices available in the Au...

for some reason it's sideways. I see them fine. Post another picture where we can see all the knobs. Make sure the shot is bright enough to make out the settings. If that your phone? Does it have an auto flash? The mixer is doing something a little unusual. Level and Master settings are lower than ...

I don't have any RX effects on two different computers. I don't think anybody else, does either.

I'm with Steve.

I'm guessing that you have one or more iZotope RX Plug-in Packs installed.

Koz

Somebody's law says if more than three organizations are involved, you'll never figure out who was to blame. But you can do some investigation. As above, if it was careful but stiff processing to maintain volume in the transmission, the tops of the waves will look more or less like the originals, bu...

Mic Recording Volume within Audacity With a USB source, you usually can't move it. It goes all the way up and that's that. should I ever mess with them or leave them be? As long as you don't change anything major, there's no reason to move the settings. I predict you're going to need a little boost...

We only know about what you tell us. 61.5dB is not a lot of elbow room. You fall off at 60 and 1.5dB is really tiny. That's probably why you can still hear some noise if you listen carefully. But yes, that's the idea. And you'll get another noise assist when you get rid of the room echoes. Your comp...