Audacity Forum

koz, Wanted to come back and say THANK YOU THANK YOU! The combination of filters you provided, see below, works FANTASTIC. It passes ACX every time! I was going nuts trying everything and finally the solution. Thank you.

Filter Curve, RMS Normalize and Limiter....great!

Marilyn

kozikowski wrote: ↑

Sat Feb 22, 2020 3:32 pm

Have you submitted a test yet? ACX will allow you to submit a short test to make sure you're on the right track. Scroll down. That post is in two parts.

Thank you, kozikowski. I didn't know about sending ACX a short test. I just did that and now they say they'll get back to me in 5-10 days.

Trebor. Thanks again for the information, very helpful! I will definitely try tomorrow morning, its so late here. What's surprising to me is you say, " ...saving to MP3 can increase the peak volume, not the RMS... ". but when I pull the mastered MP3 that got all the passes from the ACX checker, the ...

Hey Trebor, thanks for the info. I see what you mean about RMS and did not know about the differences between the slider recording and slider playback, great information. I checked everything before exporting once and the ACX checker passed everything, so why does the finished file not pass the ACX ...

Wow, great tips! Thank you kozikowski. I recorded a test, made changes for ACX and didn't save anything to MP3 until I was absolutely done. Still, when pulling up the mastered file I did the ACX check and yet again the RMS showed failedI just don't get how I export a mastered, completely finished an...

I am super new and I use a MAC Catalina, but your amazing MAC code works pretty well. I am recording and using Audacity just fine, then use the ACX checker (thank you so much for this!), and then save as an mp3. When I pull up the mp3 saved file, all of my changes are there, but my volume is super l...