MP3 is an end-user sound format. Make an MP3 for your Personal Music Player and Full Stop. There is no ‘open up an MP3 and do something else with it’. The quality can seriously turn to trash when you do that. WAV (Microsoft) is a good format for production and archive. My pro paid recordings were all done in WAV.
Yes, I know ACX requires submission in MP3, but if you read their submission standards, they have a lower quality standard but not upper. You should submit in very high quality MP3—made from your super, perfect quality WAVs.
Is there hope or do most people buy studio time?
There’s no good way to know because they tend to not need the help forum. We did get one poster who was going great guns with her studio career cranking out work after work…and then decided to do it at home. How hard could it be?
Nice voice, by the way. This should go well when we get the system to record you right. You don’t seem to have background noise or excessive hiss or any of the other problems of a poor room, environment or microphone.
Your voice is very slightly “thin” which is what’s probably causing the loudness to fail. I did “first pass” volume setting, noise reduction, and compression. I’ll post the process when I get the real one. That sounds terrible, but you get used to the swing of the corrections. It’s a little like the four volume set “how to ride a bicycle.” The first time you hit it…
This is the English description of the three ACX numbers.
Koz