Meeting ACX Requirements w/ Audacity

[kozikowski]

Yes, please. In case it's not obvious, I'm chatting up the other elves as we do this.
I need to leave for a time.

Koz

[kozikowski]

I bet you didn't know it was going to do this. Attached.

[kozikowski]

There's an editing error in the first two seconds.
Don't post Stereo. Shoot, filter and post Mono. Attached. That will half the storage, download and filter processing times.

Little drop-down menu to the left of the track > Split Stereo Track to Mono. Delete one track.

Where's the Room Tone? You may not need to send it to the client, but it's required for our processing.

Koz

[kozikowski]

Nope. Can't proceed without Room Tone. I tried making room tone from the verbal gaps, but there's too much gasping and breathing to work.

Koz

[The_zatanna]

Sorry Koz, didn't expect that

I'll add the room tone right now!

[The_zatanna]

Before I attach a file again, do I have to record the whole thing in mono, or can I just change it and add room tone and export selection?

Just so I get it right.

[The_zatanna]

Ok, just jumped the gun,

I just re-recorded, left room tone, recorded in Mono, exported as WAV

This should be the one!

Many thanks in advance!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3HW7y ... sp=sharing

[kozikowski]

My impression was this could be a final submission which is why you did the whole fifteen minutes, which was my surprise at the editing error right at the top. Otherwise I would have ignored it.

You can always sheer off the room tone test just before final conversion to MP3 and submission.

Yes, you could totally have "converted" your existing stereo clip to mono. That's what I did just before I ran into the room tone problem. We are building "mono" into the testing process. And yes, we understand that this will create problems for people intending to submit stereo to a client. Some of the tools don't work very well in stereo.

I do not have heroically fast internet speeds, so I got to make a cup of tea while it was downloading. Mono will be twice as fast.

Good you're making all these mistakes before final, isn't it?

I need to go away for a couple of hours.

Koz

[kozikowski]

One more. You need to get Room Tone in exactly the same environment as the performance. If you don't change anything, you can get it later and jam it onto the end of the show — or even submit it as a separate file. You could do that. That's dangerous in the case of someone getting the room tone clip during a different part of the day when the room noises are different.

Do you understand this tool? Noise Removal will try to remove exactly the noise presented to it in profile, so getting it during the performance is best. If you never change your "studio" then you can get it later. Ian, for example, generated a closet studio to get around the traffic noise on La Brea problems which change. I've heard of people trying to split the profile and the removal steps and my impression is it doesn't work particularly well.

Koz

[The_zatanna]

Koz,

You are indeed right, I was thinking of making it my final submission to the "ACX judges"

I got the room tone in the exact environment, since that is the set place where I intend to record, so the room tone shall be where my "studio" will be indefinitely ( until otherwise ;] )

As for the noise removal, I've seen the videos on what it does and I believe I understand the "general" concept of it.

I'm going to post both clips, just in case you wanted to cross reference either room tone, I assure you they are done in the same place, alas with one having my sleeping just woke up morning voices in it

Cheers!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3HW7y ... sp=sharing [[ This is take 1, which has been changed to mono and now has room tone in the beginning of the WAV ]]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3HW7y ... sp=sharing [[ This is the 2nd take, all new 15 minutes in mono, with room tone after the first couple of lines ]]

Weeeeeeeeeee