Thanks for letting me know about the issue with the amplification. Do you know how I can check this myself in the future? I am new to recording, and I am using Audacity. Any guidance would be great!
Thank you!
There is a useful tool called "the checker", here is more info and links to it: https://wiki.librivox.org/index.php?title=Checker
It also tells you when there are too much background noise in the silent parts (you can see in the audacity that the central line in the silent parts is not flat, but has small spikes) - which is the case with your recording now. It is also a very easy fix - select small amount of the silence part where the spikes are well noticeable and press "Effect-noise reduction-get noise profile";then select the whole recording and press "effect-noise reduction-ok". I usually do not touch the numbers there, just leave them as they are. In fact this is what I usually do to all my recordings as a standart procedure: I first amplify them (you'll get used to know the proper amount with experience), and then noise clean it. I tried cleaning your file and it turned out very nicely. I have not uploaded it, just to let you experiment a bit with the cleaning.
By the way, the Librivox Wiki has a lot of information on all this technical stuff as well : https://wiki.librivox.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
Thanks for letting me know about the issue with the amplification. Do you know how I can check this myself in the future? I am new to recording, and I am using Audacity. Any guidance would be great!
Thank you!
There is a useful tool called "the checker", here is more info and links to it: https://wiki.librivox.org/index.php?title=Checker
It also tells you when there are too much background noise in the silent parts (you can see in the audacity that the central line in the silent parts is not flat, but has small spikes) - which is the case with your recording now. It is also a very easy fix - select small amount of the silence part where the spikes are well noticeable and press "Effect-noise reduction-get noise profile";then select the whole recording and press "effect-noise reduction-ok". I usually do not touch the numbers there, just leave them as they are. In fact this is what I usually do to all my recordings as a standart procedure: I first amplify them (you'll get used to know the proper amount with experience), and then noise clean it. I tried cleaning your file and it turned out very nicely. I have not uploaded it, just to let you experiment a bit with the cleaning.
By the way, the Librivox Wiki has a lot of information on all this technical stuff as well : https://wiki.librivox.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
I just downloaded the Checker tool and tried it out on my first and second versions of the file--I see where it gave a warning about the volume! Thank you so much for the advice about how to clean the file up. I actually did use the noise reduction effect on that file (two times, I think!), but I guess it was still pretty noisy. I'll be sure to really scrub my files in the future. Thank you again!
I just downloaded the Checker tool and tried it out on my first and second versions of the file--I see where it gave a warning about the volume! Thank you so much for the advice about how to clean the file up. I actually did use the noise reduction effect on that file (two times, I think!), but I guess it was still pretty noisy. I'll be sure to really scrub my files in the future. Thank you again!
Amplification of the file amplifies also the noise; and too many times of noise cleaning may distort the sound of the voice ... so it is best to clean it once at the very end of all other procedures. At least that's what I do. But I am sure you will find your own best combination after some experiments.
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But I am sure you will find your own best combination after some experiments.