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I was able to get my raw recording to around where you said it should be, but it involved me turning up the gain a lot. When I test this, it now exceeds noise floor again. Here is an unedited sample again. Noise Reduction is required on that to meet ACX noise-floor specifications ... cows glazing, ...

keitht wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 15, 2020 8:55 pm

... While listening can a somehow mark where an edit or cut should begin and end? ...

Can insert a split into the track, (don't worry you can't hear the join). Or add labels.

... although both left and right channels are the right level, instead of panning the sound fades in and out and jumps up and down in volume. Check your cables/connections: are you recording stereo, rather than mono ?. (If it's mono there will be no panning). Are all Windows audio enhancements swit...

... I have a kind of crackly distorting buzz at the high end of the audio ... There are digital-artefacts way up at 14kHz, (that's on the limit of most people's hearing) ... artefacts above 13kHz.png https ://manual.audacityteam.org/man/spectrogram_view.html If you remove everything above 13kHz wit...

jmbusiness wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 15, 2020 6:20 pm

There was a fan on in another room. I turned it off and tried again. Here is another unedited sample.
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In addition to being too quiet, there's noticeable reverb in that.
Your room needs acoustic treatment.

Re: Waveform view that shows some frequency info (colors) ... Freesound has something like that ... https://freesound.org/data/displays/502/502451_3162775_wave_L.png https://freesound.org/data/displays/502/502451_3162775_spec_L.jpg https://freesound.org/people/zagi2/sounds/502451/ I don't know if i...

But I am also producing a Youtube show changing my pitch constantly and now I am about to produce narration that will include dialogue with different characters (male - female), and I am not sure if these mastering effects (equalizer, normalise and limiter) will have a negative effect on the voices...

... I would get them to pass, touch absolutely nothing, record another few lines and follow the same procedure with exact same settings and it would fail noise floor ... Can anyone advise as to what would cause this with noise floor over and over?? Back and forth between passing and failing?? The A...

I don't have Skype or use games. I have Zoom for business conferencing. The instructions for disabling enhancements don't apply to my PC -- I don't have that option at all. I have Windows 10.0.17763. The spatial sound option is OFF.properties. Those are playback/speaker properties. It's the recordi...

Could RMS Normalize each clip to some constant value.

And/or try LevelSpeech2.ny plugin to level out volume on multiple clips at once.