Test Sample fails ACX Check

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with a Yeti. If it and the computer get along (yours seems to) and I think I found a good way to tame it’s excessive crispness, it should be good to go.

I applied AudioBook Mastering and the clip easily meets technical standards.


https://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Audiobook_Mastering


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I applied DeEsser and the tonal balance seems to work better.


https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/updated-de-clicker-and-new-de-esser-for-speech/34283/1


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How are you listening? It’s not unusual for new readers to have two problems. An OK microphone in a shaky room, and no good way to listen to the work to make sure the product is OK.

I’m posting two clips. The first with mastering-only just to get the volumes and blue waves in the right place, and then again with mastering and the DeEsser applied. See what you think. You’re listening to piercing, harsh SS sounds in the words, present on the first clip but not the second.

If I lean forward and really pay attention, I can just barely hear the room you’re recording in. That doesn’t actually count. In normal listening, nobody is going to hear that and I think it will easily pass both the ACX robot and ACX Human Quality Control.

Koz