Audacity Forum

My recording volume was set to 0.50. I believe default is 1.0. Wrong English Words. The goal is to get the Audacity recorded blue waveform to come in about half-way. The preamp knob setting is irrelevant. The only time you pay attention to the knob is if it seems happy all the way up or down. That ...

Where were we? This is the short form of the Audiobook Mastering Suite. https://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/AudiobookMasteringSuite.jpg Note it is a suite. A harmonious grouping. Do Not add tools in the middle or leave any out. They clean up after each other. I bet you're staying up nights wonde...

I bet you're wondering how I listened to your voice without listening to it (two postings up). I heard it when you posted it the first time before you deleted it. See the fun you can have with forum editing?
Koz

"Catskill Farms..."

Yeah, there's a little "room ambience" in there. You can cure that easily with a Kitchen Table Sound Studio. No need to wallpaper the room with expensive acoustic tiles.

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Koz

Yeah. See? Screen Shot 2021-03-30 at 7.19.09 AM.png This is that exact post after Audiobook Mastering (see DVDdoug, above). It passes Peak and RMS (Loudness) as expected, but also noise. The ACX limit is -60db, the practical limit is -65dB and you come in at -68dB. The truly obsessive will want to a...

Our conundrum is why the volume slider affected the noise like that. Where did the additional noise come from? Anyway, you have a process, if a little odd, to produce valuable work. Make that original clip again and post it. You are warned against editing existing forum postings. We are now having t...

VERY SORRY. Should have left it alone. The first post passes ACX with the appropriate mastering steps. This one doesn't. Its volume is too low. Your work blue waves should be filling the timeline about half-way as your first effort was. It still needs to do that. https://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity...

Anything here?

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Koz

There's a fuzzy rule. If you can't understand the words now, post production processing isn't going to help. There is a hum remover tool that I can't find right this second. The special purpose tools tend to be more surgical and precise than the broader generic noise removers. Are you in a 50Hz coun...

Drag-select some pure, clean noise (no voice) and Effect > Noise Reduction > Profile. Then select the show or a larger portion of the production and Effect > Noise Reduction > Default Values > OK. Listen to the work. However. Unless your laptop is screaming at you, there's a super high possibility y...