Trying to download Nyquist Analyze

[johnro43]

I am trying to download the Nyquist plug-in to analyze ACX criteria. The download gives me a txt file with left click, as well as the right-click (which the instructions indicate may be necessary to use to get a link). (See attachment) The txt file won't come up in the add/remove plugin list after I add it to the audacity plugin file. I am using Audacity 2.1.2 on Mac OS 10.14.1.

Ideas?

Thanks

[billw58]

Delete the ".txt" from the end of the file name.
-- Bill

[kozikowski]

This is where I warn you that ACX Check can be fooled. It needs at least 3/4 second of clean room tone (background sound) to measure Noise. In general, a straight narrative reading doesn't have silences quite long enough to work. Give it a second (or longer) of dead quiet before you start presenting.

Freeze and don't move. The tool can hear your pants moving.

This is one method of AudioBook Mastering.

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Let us know if you have troubles.

Koz

[johnro43]

Bill, koz,

Thanks to both of you for very helpful notes to an obvious novice. Bill, particular thanks for not appending the rich-deserved ',dumbs**t' to your suggestion to strip the 'txt' from the file.

koz, thanks for the reference. I'm lucky to have included 5-10 seconds of room noise leading and trailing to my 40 chapter files. I'll trim as part of the editing process. And I'll wear soft pants.

Thanks again,

John