Audacity Forum

Post some of your voice. I know you're not reading for audiobooks (that we know of), but this is a good recipe for posting a voice clip. http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/TestClip/Record_A_Clip.html There's nothing like flying blind and offering corrections that will never work for that particular ...

Just to bring this around. Steve told the Noise Reduction tool to reduce the background noise by about 6. When I measured it, I got -68dB (third number). After additional processing, the noise is about -75. Subtract those two........ You can't do that forever. Noise Reduction affects your voice, too...

I think I just got confused. I'll bet real good money Steve was measuring the wrong sound file. Your original announcesample.wav is perfectly good for a live reading, but isn't as perfect as Steve makes it out to be. One quick trip through the three-step mastering suite and you should be good to go...

can you tell me what I`m missing The shield on your sound cable? http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/clips/OpenShieldHum.mp3 There are specialized sound tools to try and help that, but it's far better that you fix the cable. It can be pure greasy dirt. If you have guitar amp cables... http://kozco.com/t...

sails through the ACX specifications with hardly any processing Are we talking about the same clip? announcesample.wav will not pass ACX RMS by many dB. announcesamplePatched.wav has been through the ACX Correction Suite and is ready for submission. That sounds like the one you measured. Koz

Are you the poster child for exporting a WAV safety copy of a show before you start to edit it?. In the face of computer insanity, you could go back to the original recordings and start over. Do you routinely save changes on top of the old files? That's a terrifically bad idea. That's not to say we ...

And it's a good idea to Export your original show as WAV (Microsoft) for a backup before you try any of these tricks. Save the sound file under a separate name somewhere safe. There's just nothing like having a computer problem that takes the only copy of your show straight into the mud. It's a very...

By the way you confirmed the Yeti Pro is a far better microphone than the straight Yeti. Microphone noise would never have passed this easily with the cheaper mic.

Koz

Refresh your screen before you use those tools. I may have been writing corrections while you read them and you need to see the corrections.

Koz

Aaaaaand. We're done. Screen Shot 2018-03-29 at 18.06.44.png announcesamplePatched.wav I read the cereal box. "Part of a balanced, healthy breakfast. Make Sugar Flakes a part of your....." It should sound exactly like you. And it conforms. I used the three Audiobook mastering tools I wrote...