ACX Audiobook Production Using Audacity

ACX Audiobook Production Using Audacity, available at $74.99, has an average rating of 4.58, with 20 lectures, 5 quizzes, based on 255 reviews, and has 1110 subscribers.

You will learn about How to set Audacity Preferences for ACX audiobook recording How to master voice recordings to proper RMS levels for ACX using Audacity How to build and run a Macro to automate and speed up your work How to clean up breath sounds using Punch Copy/Paste How to apply the De-Clicker effect to reduce/remove mouth sounds How to fix narration mistakes as they happen using Punch and Roll Record How to apply Equalization and when How to apply Compression How to apply the Limiter effect to meet ACX standards How to clean up breath sounds using Attenuation How to meet the ACX requirements for MP3 file size and bit rate How to install the four free Nyquist plugins used in this course How to add the required amount of room tone at the beginning and end of your recording for ACX Understanding and meeting the ACX Requirement for Room Tone Understanding and meeting the ACX Standard for Noise Floor Understanding and meeting the ACX Standard for File Size Understanding and meeting the ACX Standard for RMS Loudness Understanding and meeting the ACX Standard for Sample Rate This course is ideal for individuals who are Anyone wanting to learn more about Audacity and ACX audiobook requirements. or New or existing audiobook narrators who want to use Audacity for audiobook narration. or Audacity users exploring audiobook creation. or Audacity users wanting to learn how to edit and master audiobooks to ACX specifications. or Audacity audiobook creators seeking to sharpen their editing and mastering skills to meet ACX standards or Audacity audiobook creators seeking to build their confidence using Audacity to meet ACX standards It is particularly useful for Anyone wanting to learn more about Audacity and ACX audiobook requirements. or New or existing audiobook narrators who want to use Audacity for audiobook narration. or Audacity users exploring audiobook creation. or Audacity users wanting to learn how to edit and master audiobooks to ACX specifications. or Audacity audiobook creators seeking to sharpen their editing and mastering skills to meet ACX standards or Audacity audiobook creators seeking to build their confidence using Audacity to meet ACX standards.

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Summary

Title: ACX Audiobook Production Using Audacity

Price: $74.99

Average Rating: 4.58

Number of Lectures: 20

Number of Quizzes: 5

Number of Published Lectures: 20

Number of Published Quizzes: 5

Number of Curriculum Items: 25

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 25

Original Price: $24.99

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What You Will Learn

How to set Audacity Preferences for ACX audiobook recording

How to master voice recordings to proper RMS levels for ACX using Audacity

How to build and run a Macro to automate and speed up your work

How to clean up breath sounds using Punch Copy/Paste

How to apply the De-Clicker effect to reduce/remove mouth sounds

How to fix narration mistakes as they happen using Punch and Roll Record

How to apply Equalization and when

How to apply Compression

How to apply the Limiter effect to meet ACX standards

How to clean up breath sounds using Attenuation

How to meet the ACX requirements for MP3 file size and bit rate

How to install the four free Nyquist plugins used in this course

How to add the required amount of room tone at the beginning and end of your recording for ACX

Understanding and meeting the ACX Requirement for Room Tone

Understanding and meeting the ACX Standard for Noise Floor

Understanding and meeting the ACX Standard for File Size

Understanding and meeting the ACX Standard for RMS Loudness

Understanding and meeting the ACX Standard for Sample Rate

Who Should Attend

Anyone wanting to learn more about Audacity and ACX audiobook requirements.

New or existing audiobook narrators who want to use Audacity for audiobook narration.

Audacity users exploring audiobook creation.

Audacity users wanting to learn how to edit and master audiobooks to ACX specifications.

Audacity audiobook creators seeking to sharpen their editing and mastering skills to meet ACX standards

Audacity audiobook creators seeking to build their confidence using Audacity to meet ACX standards

Target Audiences

Anyone wanting to learn more about Audacity and ACX audiobook requirements.

New or existing audiobook narrators who want to use Audacity for audiobook narration.

Audacity users exploring audiobook creation.

Audacity users wanting to learn how to edit and master audiobooks to ACX specifications.

Audacity audiobook creators seeking to sharpen their editing and mastering skills to meet ACX standards

Audacity audiobook creators seeking to build their confidence using Audacity to meet ACX standards

Are you an audiobook creator who uses Audacity as your editing software of choice?

This course is centered around Audacity and only Audacity for audiobook creation. Audacity is a powerful and free audio editing software program that’s used by millions around the world for music, podcast, and audiobook creation. We don’t venture outside of Audacity into any 3rd party plugins, 3rd party software, or 3rd party effects during this course. This course is 100% Audacity and you’ll learn the power of Audacity in editing and producing exceptional audiobooks for ACX. Our time isn’t spent talking about mic placement, room treatments, vocal technique, or how to narrate an audiobook. There are plenty of great resources for those important topics on the web, YouTube, and here at Udemy, and I provide links to several of those resources in the final lecture of this course. If you’re wanting to produce outstanding audiobooks for free using Audacity, this course is for you.

Are you an Audacity user who wants to know what Audacity offers for audiobook production?

The topics covered in this course will give you the skills and confidence you need so you can produce and edit your audiobook narrations with excellence. We’ll record a short piece of audio and use it as a practice file through 8 individual assignments to practice the concepts we learn, turning that audio file into a produced MP3 that is ready to upload to ACX. NOTE: You’ll need Audacity version 3.X or higher to open the practice file and we download that together in Section One.

What you’ll learn in this course:

How to install the four free Nyquist plugins used in this course

The ACX Requirement for Room Tone

The ACX Standard for Noise Floor

The ACX Standard for File Size

The ACX Standard for RMS Loudness

The ACX Standard for Sample Rate

How to set Audacity Preferences for ACX audiobook recording

Simple definitions of Noise Floor, Sample Rate, RMS Loudness, and Bit Rate

How to fix narration mistakes as they happen using Punch and Roll Record

How to apply Equalization and when

How to apply Compression

How to level your audio using RMS Loudness to meet ACX requirements for RMS

How to apply the Limiter effect to meet ACX standards

How to apply the De-Clicker effect to reduce/remove mouth sounds

The importance of running Audacity’s ACX Check Plugin

How to build and run a Macro to automate our process

How to clean up breath sounds using Punch Copy/Paste

How to clean up breath sounds using Attenuation

Content editing and final MP3 export

How to meet the ACX requirements for MP3 file size and bit rate

Practice, Practice, Practice!

The 8 practice assignments in this course will give you plenty of hands-on opportunity to apply what you learn in the order it’s presented. Each assignment builds on the previous one as we build a short piece of audio together, add the different effects to it, run ACX Check on it, and export it as an MP3 file that’s ready to pass the ACX quality control standards. And we do all of this using only Audacity.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Getting Started

Lecture 1: Welcome and Introduction

Lecture 2: Downloading and Installing Audacity

Lecture 3: Suggested Audacity Plugins for ACX

Chapter 2: ACX Audiobook Requirements

Lecture 1: Section Overview: What You’ll Learn in This Section

Lecture 2: ACX Standards for Room Tone, Noise Floor, and File Size

Lecture 3: ACX Standard for RMS Loudness

Lecture 4: ACX Standards for Noise Floor, Sample Rate, & Mono vs. Stereo

Lecture 5: Setting Audacity Preferences to Meet ACX Standards

Chapter 3: Hands-On Recording and Post-Production for ACX

Lecture 1: Section Overview: What You’ll Learn in This Section

Lecture 2: Record a Track and Use Punch and Roll

Lecture 3: Applying Equalization

Lecture 4: Compression and RMS Loudness

Lecture 5: The Limiter, De-Clicker, and ACX Check

Lecture 6: Letting Macros Do The Work

Chapter 4: Content Editing and MP3 Export

Lecture 1: Section Overview: What You’ll Learn in This Section

Lecture 2: Cleaning Up Breath Sounds with Punch Copy/Paste and Punch Paste

Lecture 3: Cleaning Up Breath Sounds with Attenuation

Lecture 4: Final Cleanup, ACX Check, and MP3 Export

Lecture 5: Congratulations and Additional Resources

Chapter 5: Software Version Updates and Additional Features

Lecture 1: Whats New in Audacity Version 3.1?

Instructors

Mike Adams
Audacity Professional, Podcast Editor, Producer, and Host

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Frequently Asked Questions

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