Im trying to get into narrating audiobooks and before i pass the acx check it sounds great but when i meet all the requirements it turned into this what did i do wrong?
Most of the Audacity tools to push you past ACX Acceptance have to do with technical specifications. Are the peaks loud enough, is there anything wrong with the silences between words, etc. Nothing to do with theatrical quality of the voice. That’s one of the things that ACX checks with an actual human when they inspect your submission. How did you get to your finished chapter? There is a tool set I designed to do everything in one pass and any minute now I’m going to find it. Koz
Sounds like noise reduction “audio enhancement” … https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/topic/disable-audio-enhancements .
Could you upload the same sample in its great-sounding state?
By “pass the acx check” you probably mean that you run the ACX Check plugin (ACX-Check.ny) from Analysis plugins | Audacity Plugins?
What steps do you take to achieve meeting the requirements? Are you doing things suggested at Audiobook Mastering | Audacity Support?
I’m assuming you do not merely apply Audiobook-Mastering-Macro.txt. At least for me, doing so does not make me pass the ACX Check plugin.
My first guess was that Noise Reduction (Audacity Manual) is overused but I failed to reproduce such damage to a voice recording myself. I was able to achieve some similar-sounding artifacts by including my voice when pressing Get Noise Profile. Just in case:
