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I have a Fifine USB microphone; it was $45 (pic attached); so in hindsight I don’t doubt it’s the issue! Apparently half of the +5K Amazon reviews for that are bogus, (I'd wager that's an underestimate), see ... https://www.fakespot.com/product/usb-microphone-fifine-metal-condenser-recording-microp...

sharief wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 03, 2020 7:50 pm

I use the following
1.Noise removal
2.Compressor
3.Reverb
4.High pass filter at 80
5.De-esser
6.Normalize

De-ess should be before reverb, e.g. ...
1.High pass filter at 80
2.Noise removal
3.Compressor
4.De-esser
5.Reverb
6.Normalize

...Is there a preferred De-esser you use for Acx and why? ... I only know of two de-essers specifically for Audacity ... https://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?p=364686#p364686 There are many de-esser plugins which will run in Audacity on Windows & Mac, (I don't know how plugins work on L...

NobleDarkness wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 30, 2020 2:46 am

... The audio sounds very choppy/bumpy/gravelly ...
and I was wondering how I could make this a lot smoother

Attachments SoBumpy.mp3 (1.05 MiB)

PaulStretch without stretching applies temporal-blur which smooths out bumpiness.

When Trebor publishes his settings, that should give you a good place to start. suggested de-esser settings.png The threshold for Paul-L's de-esser should be close to the RMS of the audio , (+/-2 dB). (IMO leave the other De-Esser settings as shown). Paul-L's de-esser is a multi-band brickwall limi...

Hi, could you please rate this Acx demo sample ... It's very good, apart from the excessive sibilance. I'm with Koz : the only cure is a de-esser ... ''Treated with respect'', B-A.flac Depending on how you're listening the sibilance may not sound excessive. With in-ear headphones the sibilance, (pa...

... is there anything I can do to improve the general quality otherwise? Attachments test.wav (312.04 KiB) That's not a raw recording: noise/echo reduction has been applied, possibly before the sound got to Audacity. It's usually best to switch those audio enhancements off, (I don't speak mac). Ins...

Spectrogram view is more useful than waveform view when trying to identify (recurring) sounds.
( No automated way of identifying & removing though).

There is a mic gain (recording) slider in Audacity, try sliding that all the way to the right (+) ...

https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/mixer_toolbar.html

There are de-reverb plugins ... viewtopic.php?p=380794#p380794
but IMO the artefacts they create would ruin a musical performance: more harm than good.