Low waveforms

[deborah1217]

Thank you, Bill, for the response. I was able to find it following your instructions.

Am I good to go now as is? Or do I need to also remove the plug-ins I uploaded via the manager?

Thanks!

[deborah1217]

I'm back, having used the Acx Check app.

It says the RMS level is outside the ACX specification of -18 to -23 dBFS. (I've attached a screenshot of the analysis I received in case you wanted to see the whole analysis.)

I've spent hours on this clip, so this was a bit discouraging. I completed steps to Normalize, Equalize, and Compress before I ran the analysis. Can you advise me on how to fix it, please?

Thank you!

[kozikowski]

Meanwhile on the west coast. I applied Audiobook Mastering tools and got your clip to pass no trouble.

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There's two problems. You were a bit too expressive at 15 seconds. "Are you sittin' in the.." When you emote like that you should back away from the microphone a bit so the stress in your voice is there without the volume increase.


There's a noise back there. Can you tell if the computer is on just by listening? I'm pretty sure that's what it is. There is a quiet hair-dryer sound behind your voice. I got rid of it with the Noise Reduction tools, but I shouldn't need to do that. The fewer corrections, the better..

I prepared a clip with the noise intentionally boosted. What in the room could sound like that?

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Koz

[kozikowski]

This is the process for mastering.

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

At the end, I applied ordinary Noise Reduction at 6, 6, 6 values.

https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/noi ... ction.html

That would ACX pass and submit, but if that's a preventable noise, it should be prevented.

Koz

[kozikowski]

The waves are tiny and could be louder. How far away are you? In general a Hawaiian Shaka for no blast screen.



If you get further away, your voice volume will start to drop and mess up your noise measurement. If you get too close to a directional microphone, it may give you odd tonal balance. I once played two different people, man and woman, by messing with microphone spacing and a little acting.


@ curlyag

I've been told to "eat the microphone"....maybe try closer placement?

Yes, but there's a trick to that. You can't just get closer. You won't be able to read your script and it will really mess up your voice from Proximity Effect...like this.

http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/clips/PPopping.mp3

If you really can't get it to work any other way, place the microphone really close but between your nose and ear—like out the corner of your mouth. It may give you a little odd tonal balance, but it will get significantly louder and not pop your P sounds.

Koz

[deborah1217]

Thanks, Koz!