That turned out to be a mixed blessing since in the US, furniture moving pads are pretty common and inexpensive. In the UK, however, they’re not. Apparently in the UK, nobody ever moves.
So it seems to make sense to do a Filter Curve that takes a little off the top frequencies then the other compression steps.
There is a problem with trying to manage tones around 3000Hz. If you’re successful, it can make your voice muffled and indistinct. That gives you the problem of: “He’s perfectly loud, but I can’t understand him.”
Early telephone systems put a lot of voice energy right there because that was where most of the articulation lived.
But much more important than that, ACX needs everything to match. Beginning and endings of chapters, the chapters to each other and the beginning and ending of the book.
So whatever you’re doing now, you’re stuck with it. I have an odd and controversial recommendation: Do Not do any computer updates until you finish recording.
There was an audiobook performer who moved houses in the middle of her book. That was not fun.
If you look at the frequency plot of professional-made audio, (cough Stephen Fry cough),
then compare it with yours,
that will give an objective measurement of the equalization direction you need to head in.
