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Audacity levelator1/8/2023 ![]() SAG-AFTRA has done a sensational job contracting publishers, so our rates will hold and in the long run, we’ll see a pension. Recently 2 narrators who have each spoken over 100 audiobooks have told me they spend a few hours a day recording, with the knowledge that it contributes every time to their union health and pension. It’s my personal VO bootcamp and as you’ve taught me, it pays. Lots of VO people like to poo-poo the sheer quantity of copy of audiobooks, but I say if you can run the marathon of recording a book, when a 5 line commercial comes in, you’re gonna pop it out with conversational style, simply because you’ve had the experience of spending hours on the mic. You are a beacon in the midst of my disbelief. Fact is, without your support, I doubt I’d even be auditioning. It’s exciting when one of my 3 agents (LA, SF and Minneapolis) drop a national commercial audition, Disney animated character or Silverlight game character audition into my inbox. I’m in search of my 7th audiobook now, after having taken a break for about 9 months of agent hunting, demo-making, website updating and on-line promotions, all of which I learned in your no-nonsense classes. ![]() ![]() ![]() Your advice, as always, is stellar and you’ve got a great knack for addressing exactly what I’m pondering in your newsletters, often without my even reaching out. So, keep it simple – just normalize if you need to, but not for audiobooks, until you’ve used Levelator. Noise removal can severely damage your performance with just the slightest slip of the mouse – instead, work to make your recording space quieter.Īnd the other plugins are mostly for music. Then, I bring that Levelated audio back in to Audacity, and normalize to -3.0 before exporting to MP3.Īnd I suggest you resist the urge to play with these things, unless all you’re doing is playing. I leave the raw WAV audio I record for audiobooks alone, and let Levelator do its magic without any help from an Audacity plug in. I don’t use anything, except normalization, and only when I do auditions. (Marlon’s an awesome foodie as well as a VO talent and actor – check out her YouTube channel here) “Noise removal” to eliminate superflous background sounds?ĭo both these just about every time? Neither? Just one? Knock the highs and lows off with “Compressor” effect? What audacity effects do you utilize most often to polish an audio file before sending it off? The truth is, I suggest you keep it really simple. She was talking about all those options on the Effects menu in Audacity. I got a note from the lovely and talented Marlon Braccia about what I do to manipulate my audio with Audacity before submitting – you know, compression, noise reduction etc. You can find links to other useful Open Source audio and audio-visual applications, that you can download and use, in the Audacity Wiki.By David H.Other Open Source Audio and Audio-Visual Applications You may copy, distribute, modify and/or resell Audacity, under the terms of the GNU GPL.To build Audacity yourself, download the source code.Although there are a number of sellers of Audacity software on ebay, Amazon, Microsoft Store and Apple Store, none of these sellers are affiliated to Audacity, and none have contributed in any way to the Audacity project.Source code and user manuals for some old versions are available on FossHub, as well as AppImages since version 3.0.3. For Linux, the appropriate version of Audacity for your operating system is usually included in your distribution’s repository.For macOS 10.12 (Sierra) and earlier, legacy versions of Audacity are available on the Legacy Mac downloads page.For Windows 7 and earlier, legacy versions of Audacity are available on the Legacy Windows downloads page.
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