Practical guides to getting your voice recordings up to a professional standard: loudness, noise, formats and delivery specs, explained clearly.
Mouth clicks can ruin otherwise clean narration. Learn what causes them, what de-click software can fix, and when manual editing is still the better option.
Read · 7 min readAudacity 4 dropped Macros. Here’s what changed for audiobook narrators, what the ACX mastering macro did, and how to master without it.
Read · 8 min readACX rejected your audiobook audio? Learn how to diagnose RMS, peak, noise-floor, format and quality problems, and what to fix first.
Read · 7 min readClicks, noise, reverb and loudness are fair game. Pacing, dramatic gasps and misreads are not. Where the line sits in audiobook post-production.
Read · 6 min readStrip every breath and the narration goes dead. When breaths help, when they distract, and the middle path that usually wins.
Read · 8 min readTechnically cleaner can still sound worse. Where to stop with noise reduction, compression, room tone and breaths.
Read · 9 min readNo single number is demanded across the industry. Here is what is an official recommendation, what is common practice, and what to actually aim for.
Read · 7 min readTwo playback features, often confused. What each one does to your audio, and why neither replaces a proper master.
Read · 5 min readCutting every um is easy to overdo. What to remove, what to leave in, and where automation genuinely helps.
Read · 6 min readACX gives you three main audio numbers to hit. The tricky bit is getting them all right at the same time without wrecking the narration.
Read · 8 min readA practical setup and session checklist for getting clean, consistent narration before mastering.
Read · 6 min readThree loudness numbers, three different jobs, and why each platform checks a different one.
Read · 4 min readWhy 'silent' recordings aren't actually silent, and why chasing true silence backfires.
Read · 5 min readHow loudness normalisation works, and the one thing it can never fix for you.
Read · 5 min readWhat causes sibilance and plosives, and why mic placement beats fixing it afterwards.
Read · 6 min readWhy co-hosts pick up each other's mics, and why it's a recording fix, not a processing one.
Read · 5 min readEditing, mixing and mastering aren't the same job, and skipping the last one shows.
Read · 5 min readWhy price is rarely the problem; consistency, clean noise and a proper master are.
Read · 6 min readThe loudness target, true peak ceiling and delivery format YouTube actually uses.
Read · 5 min read