![]() ![]() There is actually a poster child example of what not to do from the forum. ![]() There was a relatively famous example of someone reading a book while in the hotel room for a trip or event, effectively double-using her time. The less time it takes to crank out a successful book the better. – If the goal of reading is to have someone pay you, then business decisions apply. A recent posting from ACX suggests you stop using condenser microphones as they almost universally require DeEssing-at least the home ones. It should be possible to read in a good quality microphone in a quiet room, edit out your fluffs, apply mastering and out the door. That’s why Audiobook Mastering is only three tools, not counting ACX Check. – Any processing step, no matter how seemingly harmless affects the voice quality-usually badly. ![]() After that, you have to pass Human Quality Control which is looking for theatrical distortion which is where you go to die if you used too much Noise Reduction or other processing and your voice sounds funny.ĭidn’t say anything about Noise Reduction, I just threw it in there. We should remember that ACX Check or the company version of it is only the first test. Those can create serious problems and in extreme conditions can cause you to fail for “Excessive Processing.” That’s an actual ACX failure. That usually means you have applied Noise Reduction wrong or you are using a microphone system that’s trying to reduce noise automatically. If you recorded in a quiet environment with a reasonable microphone, that should just work, and there are considerations in Mastering what to do if you don’t pass Noise. Properly applied, Mastering guarantees the first two specifications, Peak and RMS with minimal change in sound quality and the only one left is Noise. Really messy things can happen if you don’t use them that way. Mastering works as a suite, a harmonious grouping. ![]() You left out the settings for those two tools you mentioned and that’s critical. It starts with Equalization: Low Rolloff for Speech and goes on from there. For one, you should follow strictly the ACX Mastering process. ![]()
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