Audacity Forum

Headset? Microphone and two ear pads? What are they? Wireless?

Koz

2. A simple USB device

You need to hit it closer than that. What device?
I think it's still true Audacity won't play multi-track. Your choices are mono and stereo.

Koz

This is an example. I went into my quiet third bedroom just now with a simple sound recorder and cut this. I'm no performer. I subjected it to the AudioBook Mastering tools and then tested it with ACX Check. It passed. Screen Shot 2018-05-31 at 20.20.12.png 180531_0106-CurdsAndWhey.wav I did cheat a...

I would Export a WAV copy of each chapter now and then copy them to a Safe Place. The military would call what you have now a "Single Point Of Failure." Just the right mistake or a computer not feeling well this morning and your book may not open and may not be recoverable. How long did it...

tuck the mic up under one of the earpieces. All you have to do is make a phone call and hit the record button in Audacity. Or you can use an Olympus TP-7 or TP-8 microphone in your ear. Plugged into any sound recorder and it carries both sides. This has the advantage of working with any telephone o...

I know I wrote one of these. I couldn't find it.

viewtopic.php?p=297423#p297423

I gotta get organized.

Koz

I planned to make a new file for each individual chapter to submit it to ACX. And while you're there, also Export a WAV (Microsoft) 16-bit sound file and save that as your chapter perfect quality protection backup. Copy them to a separate thumb drive, disk or cloud. If for some reason your Master P...

ACX Check measures three different things: Peaks, RMS (volume) and Noise. It was written by Flynwill by collecting several already existing tools. ACX Check is the collected works with a pretty face. It's designed to be very similar to the "robot check" that ACX uses. As a fuzzy rule, nobo...

There's another point of comparison. Technically, the microphone on the side of your laptop is a "Condenser Microphone." It's an electret condenser type which usually produces reasonable sound way out of proportion to its size, but nobody would call it "professional studio." Koz

Without details on the microphone and the USB Soundcard, there's not a whole lot we can do. There are condenser microphones rated to run from the +5 volts on a USB soundcard, but the makers insist in the instructions that you only get full quality with a "real" phantom power (+48 volt) sup...