# Standard chain settings for ACX production **URL:** \ **Category:** Audiobook Production\ **Created:** [April 12, 2018, 4:03pm UTC](https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/standard-chain-settings-for-acx-production/48872 "2018-04-12T16:03:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![kozikowski](https://forum.audacityteam.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/919ad9/32.png) [@kozikowski](https://forum.audacityteam.org/u/kozikowski)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2018, 2:05am UTC](https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/standard-chain-settings-for-acx-production/48872/2 "2018-04-13T02:05:45Z")
> ACX production and made it a sticky or something permenant. Yes, I’ve been thinking about that. But until then, I published an AudioBook Mastering Suite. > [@AudioBook Mastering version 4](https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/audiobook-mastering-version-4/45908/1): > > Audiobook Mastering is now a formal part of the Audacity Manual. [https://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Audiobook\_Mastering](https://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Audiobook_Mastering) This forum posting is an early work in progress and no longer updated or corrected. AudioBook Technical Mastering (revision 1, minor corrections 2017-12-08) (revision 2, New and Improved RMS Normalize 2018-07-25) (revision 3, Bold for clarity 2018-08-25) — PURPOSE: This is a suite of Audacity tools and process to help you produce an audiobook reading that reac… It’s designed to start from a raw reading and process to final submission. It’s designed to sound exactly like you when you get done and it doesn’t use a compression step. If you fail noise (a lot of home readers do) then you need to add a noise reduction step. If your voice is harsh, crisp and “essy” you can add a published DeEsser. That part isn’t in the suite. DeEssing should be one of the final things you do because the DeEsser depends on stable volume while it’s working. > [@Updated De-Clicker and new De-esser for speech](https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/updated-de-clicker-and-new-de-esser-for-speech/34283/1): > > Here are the latest improvements to the plug-in I am developing for filtering out of wet mouth noises and clicks from my narrations. I also present a de-esser using similar methods that fell out as a by-product. De-Clicker is designed for filtering of natural but undesirable noises that take a few milliseconds to decay, not for repairing spikey damage to a digitized signal. I did not intend this for music or vinyl repair, but I would like to hear whether it has unexpected other uses. The def… _Please don’t ad-lib_. The tools in the mastering suite depend on each other. Try it with a test sound clip. Also, publish the clip here on the forum. That, too, has a format. [http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/TestClip/Record\_A\_Clip.html](http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/TestClip/Record_A_Clip.html) Depending on time-zone timing, we’ll do the corrections and tell you how it came out. Koz --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/standard-chain-settings-for-acx-production/48872)._