# Headroom for mastering

**URL:** <https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/headroom-for-mastering/48138>\
**Category:** Making Music\
**Created:** [February 1, 2018, 2:06am UTC](https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/headroom-for-mastering/48138 "2018-02-01T02:06:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![kozikowski](https://forum.audacityteam.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/919ad9/32.png) [@kozikowski](https://forum.audacityteam.org/u/kozikowski)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2018, 2:15am UTC](https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/headroom-for-mastering/48138/2 "2018-02-01T02:15:33Z")

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What are you mastering? Are you reading for audiobooks?

We publish a suite of tools that will take you from a raw performance recording to a submission master.

[https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/audiobook-mastering-version-4/45908/1](https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/audiobook-mastering-version-4/45908/1)

It takes into account the three ACX AudioBook specifications: peak overload, loudness (RMS), and noise.

You still have to know how to read out loud. There’s no filter for that.

ACX has the strictest technical requirements and in general, if you can pass that, you can submit to anybody else.

Let us know.

Koz

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