schrm wrote: ↑July 15th, 2018, 9:19 am
i will try to look into that area and try to change the encoding, first.
what i remember, there are several different codecs for creating mp3..
{No need to change the codecs. Go back to your last saved iteration of your raw and mastered file, change Audacity's "Variable Speed" setting, from the dropdown, to a lower setting, and re-render to a new MP3.}
cheers,
edit: the bloating happens in filesize, seems to be, not in the bitrate.
{Maybe I misunderstood your original post.. I thought you stated that Archive was rejecting them because they reported as 129kbps?}
@dale:
can you give me this "audio signal >16kHZ" thing is something i can do with audacity?
Schrm,
What I do is apply an EQ-effect, early in my editing process (before any compression or adding gain), with the settings for a High Pass Filter (HPF) and Low Pass Filter (LPF). On the EQ, I pull every frequency-band slider, from 80Hz and below, down to Zero. This cuts those frequencies out of my audio recording and allows all of the other
Higher frequencies to
Pass though the
Filter. On the same instance of the EQ, I also pull all of the frequency bands, from 15kHz and above, to Zero. This cuts those frequencies and allows all of the signal's
Lower frequencies to
Pass through the
Filter. {the nomenclature sounds odd that an
HPF is applied to
low freqs and
LPF is applied to
high freqs}
Although I use the DAW called Reaper for my VO work, I also use Audacity occasionally for some preset work. In Reaper, I have manually created an EQ preset, per my own HPF/LPF taste. You can do the same in the Multi-band EQ effect, in Audacity. Audacity also has HPF and LPF effects, in the Effects Menu. Personally, I do not like to use HPF and LPF plug-ins because they have a tendancy to start their cuts a little higher or lower in frequency, than my 80Hz and 15kHz preference.
Dale
EDIT: I just checked the Audacity HPF and LPF effects and they are programmable. You can set the cutoff frequency and gain reduction to a max -48dB.
