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I have lobbied Paul to document DeEsser and Mouth Declicker and then consider if they could be published on http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Downl ... t_Plug-ins. I wish he would do that, unless there is some technical issue with the plugins (and if there is, fix the issues). I seem to recall a complaint about stereo imaging wandering with at least one of those plugins.

For Audacity 2.1.1, you have to install Nyquist plugins in the Audacity "Plug-Ins" folder then use the "Manage" item at the top of the Effect Menu to enable the plugin. In 2.1.2 "Manage" is called "Add / Remove Plug-ins".

In older Audacity you install Nyquist plugins in the Audacity "Plug-Ins" folder then restart Audacity.


Gale

I swear it was you... I made a simple equalization that took a little of the edge from everything and it sounded OK. I'm not with the grownup computer right this second. If it was going to be anywhere, it would be in that machine archive.

It's distressing that I went back through the conversations with you and it didn't turn up. Maybe it wasn't you.

I did find the Giant Hummy Monster that lives in the Attic. I rolled up my sleeves, got fresh coffee and went looking for it with instruments. Nothing so exciting as LA Department of Water and Power overhead lines. It turned out to be an electrical stress problem in my keyboard bass cabinet. Both electrical and acoustic. It drives microphones nuts. It also responds to being unplugged.

Someday I'll have to fix that........

Koz

It wasn't you.

There was another poster with roughly similar overly crisp presentation. Attached is CrispPatch1.xml.

Install it into your Equalizer as one of the preset options.

Adding Audacity Equalization Curves
-- Select something on the timeline.
-- Effect > Equalization > Save/Manage Curves > Import
-- Select CrispPatch1.xml > OK.
-- CrispPatch1 now appears in the equalization preset curve list.

Let us know if you can't run it for any reason. I expect the green curve to look something like the attached pix. You may have to demagnify your browser a little.

It will give a significant dulling effect which may be a shock after the prickly crispness of the original.

Go watch TV for a while, come back and listen to the corrected one by itself.

Koz

Gale Andrews wrote: I seem to recall a complaint about stereo imaging wandering with at least one of those plugins.

That may have been me. There's no option to link-stereo tracks : the DeEsser effect is applied independently to each track. So not a bug : it's a feature-request by moi.

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Koz...

I haven't been able to post for days keep getting errors

Finally!
Koz
All of my audiobooks have passed AcX since I started using your Mastering formula and changed my Mic gain and lots of etc.
I get nervous just thinking of my countless all night sessions trying to make the numbers right for a Pass. Then,

You assessed my recording environment, and even read my sound card users manual (that still blows my mind) I read it over and over again but I was too green
You had me turn knobs, scream into the mic , wipe the lipstick off the mic and Voilà magic numbers finally appeared.
A sound engineer guy told me he can't believe I get a Pass from ACX starting with a 50 in recording and that if I manipulate with too many effects it will bump my noise floor over the limit.
He said I shouldn't aim for 'good enough ' hmmm.

if I use this effect in addition to Normalize-Steves Rolloff-Compressor-Normalize will the numbers be too close when they fly thru Acx Abyss

Always wondered about that hummy monster. Crazy that it reacts unplugged- great work Detective

great work Detective

That's the down side of Too Much Understanding. Yes it could be a massive unbalance in the three thousand volt city high tension wires that go over the house, or it could be a short, green, warty, slathering, reptilian hummy monster who lives between the beams in the attic.... Or it could be a busted wire in my bass cabinet.

Occam called. He's out of shaving soap. Can you drop by the Chemist/Drugstore on your way home?

It's not impossible to make it through ACX compliance. You have to record with minimum quality standards and then not fall over your words while you present. That will shoot you past The ACX Robot and Human Quality Control, respt.

Aaaaaand, we're done.

There was a recent theatrical radio show of a presenter who locked herself in a hotel room closet while she was trying to record an audiobook. She left the recorder running and the show was her trying to get the attention of someone in the hallway to let her out.

It was riveting radio, but that wasn't my take-away. Wait, she was doing what between a duvet (quilt) and a winter coat, squatting on the floor of a hotel room closet? Apparently she does this all the time. Announce, not lock herself in. She left behind the Advanced Magic of the Studio a long time ago.

There is the idea that you take up photography so you can see the world around you, not take pretty pictures. You take up recording audiobooks to hear it.

I've maintained for a while you can do very well with a good stand-alone recorder and a quiet room. I'm experimenting with a $130 usd recorder that has Audio CD quality file support. Far easier to deal with than struggling with The Yeti Curse noise in a sparcely-furnished living room with ten-minute echoes. I swear I'm going to do a sound test in my garage/car park.

I'm sorry. Did you have an actual question in there?

[/rambling]

Koz