Without question the worst thing that ACX did is kill their human evaluated test submission. That’s the one I failed. My reviewer said my sound file was terrific, but my voice wasn’t. I was too noisy and distorted for audiobook reading.
Ever since the the pandemic, they found they could get away without the evaluation forever.
Your choices are submit the whole book finished…or not.
OK, so here we are well over a week messing with it.
How did you record the original voice? I think I mentioned up a bit that I can hear odd digital and process distortions and some software “helping you out” with the quality.
There is a Give Up Point and record it again with better equipment and environment.
That’s a sound studio I whipped up for people in the building to walk into and perform voice tracks for a movie. It takes me about fifteen minutes to set it up. I used to borrow one of the film editing rooms from the editorial department.
Much later I designed the Kitchen Table Studio.
These blankets are all furniture moving pads. They kill echoes and make anybody sound terrific. Note the folded over one on the floor and the desk.
I’m not that much of a fan of recording on the computer. It’s too easy to get the damage that you got.
I have a Zoom H1n recorder, several Olympus recorders and I can record sound on my iPhone. They will all record top quality sound. All outside the computer. Stay away from MP3 recorders.
Koz