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What's the job? Are you recording your voice for an AudioBook?

It doesn't end the recording but the track stops in place.

So Audacity keeps recording the work but the screen freezes? That didn't come out right.

Koz

I thought you were going to post a two second clip. We can't do much with that. This is perfect. Nice voice. Thank you Johnny Olsen. This better? Set the playback volume so your voice is normal and then rewind to the beginning and listen. audio test_6-25Patched.wav It meets AudioBook standards. I ap...

Audacity doesn't have instructional videos. We post the on-line manual. Click Online-Manual in this forum at the top. Also: https://manual.audacityteam.org/ Videos take a ton of work and many of them have to be done over every time Audacity has a new version. Audacity is not a large corporation. It'...

That's the envelope tool. You can use that to drag and change the volume in tiny bits if you need to.

It's the two black arrows and bent line in the tool bars at the top. For regular editing, you can use the I-Beam tool.

Koz

Lastly, don't dump ANY of these files until you get the green-light from ACX that your narration is going live. And even then. The ACX postings are compressed MP3, not perfect quality WAV. If somebody needs changes, do it from your WAV files, not from their posting. I keep my backups longer, but I'...

It's fairly common for de-essing to be applied to recordings that exhibit excessive sibilance. That is ideal, but there were comments about the frequency of use. I can imagine producers faced with critical evaluation of many performances not bothering to pick and choose. Filter everything. That als...

Which mic produces the best end result? Right. I'm a fan of the dynamic (moving coil) microphones. I think the newer condenser microphones are harsh and too crisp for comfortable listening and I'm not the only one. It's a common practice to apply "De-Essing" to everything to get rid of th...

DanTest4 works.
I ran it through Mastering 4 and the only addition was Noise Reduction of 9,6,6. The reduction is a little stiff, but you can't hear it working.

You could go with that.

Can you get the same results I did?

Koz

However, I do have a heavy amount of hiss now. That's the quiet Behringer Xenyx Preamplifier. XenyxPreamp.jpg It's the same microphone electronics they use in some of their larger mixers. The preamp is what makes the hissy noise in the system. That's why mixers for sale all print in big letters whi...

It looks like he's speaking into a Behringer C-1 condenser microphone. Does he say that anywhere? That would be super good to know. So he's speaking into a hot condenser microphone with a raised voice about an inch away. I can try that with mine tomorrow. I'm not surprised he got the UM2 to easily o...