Audacity Forum

It occurred to me long after I wrote that, that one of the tools in Mastering 4 may have the same show length problem. And that's a shame because I think it's the only RMS (loudness) management tool available.

I wonder if there's an easy way to tell when the tools are going to poop out.

Koz

Quick note. If you are using Mastering 4, you don't have to check everything. Just noise and you can do that with Analyze > Contrast, and you can do it on any length chapter. Zoom into room tone. Drag-select a bunch of it > Analyze > Contrast > Foreground > Measure Selection. The reading sticks so y...

The ACX chapter limit is 120 minutes. I wondered. Yes, there are limits to what we can do with the built-in programming. Are you using Mastering 4 or have you designed your own mastering process? We get page after page of failures, so it's good every so often to display a success story. Did you turn...

48V PHANTOM POWER supply, that runs xlr to aux into my pc. We should find out a lot more about that cable or device. Usually, those two services are incompatible. You can't just "adapt" an XLR microphone to the side of a laptop. Also, an AUP file is a project manager text file, not a soun...

A word on that bug. We should remember that Audacity is developed by four guys in a camper in Land's End. http://kozco.com/pix/AudacityHeadquarters.jpg It's not a large corporation. So pre-release software inspection is done from a list of known, expected behavior. It is expected that a producer Sav...

But even without the bug, losing your AUP file is very serious. A raw-capture mono Project might be recovered without the AUP file using the time and date stamps and a little luck. A raw stereo show can be recovered if you don't mind left and right sound swapping at random. A production edit can not...

Plain Blue Yeti is the least stable of the microphone systems. If anything goes wrong with the computer, it shows up in your recording right away. Even worse if your built-in microphone does it, too. If running on batteries doesn't solve it or change it , then you should use a different computer—or ...

I thought maybe that would help. It helps us. That's not a known noise profile, so you have a broken computer or power supply. Can you run your computer on batteries? Is it a laptop? Noise Reduction is something of a juggling act. If the noise is low enough like background hiss on a microphone, you...

And not to take the tools in a vacuum, AudioBook Mastering 4 combines three tools into a suite. Effect > Equalization runs a rumble filter to eliminate room and microphone error rumble. Effect > RMS Normalize to set overall RMS (Loudness). Effect > Limiter to clear up any peak errors. If you recorde...

I need to solve the problem of some newer songs that surprise me by sounding much louder than I expected. There is a tool now to put the loudness somewhere instead of measuring it and bemoaning that it's in the wrong place. Steve wrote RMS Normalize to help out with audiobook problems. Audiobook pr...