My colleague designed an Audacity recording approach taking sound recordings from Edge (read aloud). He handed the development work to me with instructions which included using:
Host: WASAPI
Playback device: inbuilt speakers
Recording device: inbuilt speakers (loopback)
Then Normalising tool and the Noise Reduction tool.
When I recorded on my own machine, I found that the sound quality was fantastic (between +0.5 and -0.5, minimal background noise, crisp) and I could use the exported wavs without any processing. I have been slowly updating his set of recordings with my cleaner ones. His had more background noise, and sounded boxy.
I have just been given a new laptop on an interstate work trip and I no longer seem to have the dreamy life anymore and now my recordings also sound boxy, with considerable background noise and come in with peaks of approx between -0.1 and +0.1). Sadly, I left my old laptop with our IT team so I can’t do a like for like comparison of settings.
What can I try to get the cleanest recording with minimal post production?
Thanks
Sheridan
