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Thank you for the reply. Got there in the end with installing the Punch Copy/ Paste plug-in. Was baffled at first because it's not listed among the plug-ins at https://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Download_Nyquist_Plug-ins P.S. -- My problems with ACX are not to do with quality control but wage theft!...

I dare say this has been addressed before, but unable to find the answer...

Is there a way to paste room tone into a gap of any length, or does the copied room tone need to be of the same duration?

Thank you for this analysis. Kind and generous.

Ah, so that's what it's called. I'll experiment with that for the next book. Thank you for the link.

Thank you, Trebor. I'll take a look. A lot to chew on there.

Hello again, Koz -- Would be grateful for your thoughts on reducing the essing, and have attached three files with the same brief excerpt.: 1. Excerpt Raw Abdiel S.wav 2. Excerpt After RMS Normalize and Limiter Abdiel SM.wav 3. Excerpt After Filtering and Noise Reduction Abdiel SMM.wav Is #3 close t...

Also, as I gather de-Essing would be the last step in mastering, here is the same excerpt after applying the recommended RMS Normalize then Limiter.

I too would be grateful for help with de-essing. Attached is an excerpt from the raw file. I do have the DeEsser plug in as posted above, but no idea what settings to use.

No worries. I'll be gentle.

Thank you for the conversation. I learned a lot!

Here is another view of the gadget. IMG_20200816_191910a.jpg I got it from the same store that you linked to for the Portabooth, but several years ago now. I'll make sure that the -10 setting stays off in future, but I do have 5 hours of audiobook to master and won't rerecord it now. So it seems to ...