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Audiobook Creation: Audacity and ACX Approval
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Audiobook Creation: Audacity and ACX Approval

Record and edit professional quality audiobooks in Audacity and get ACX/Audible approval
Created byAngshuman Dutta
Last updated 2/2025
English

What you'll learn

  • Professionally record and edit Audiobooks using Audacity and pass ACX check
  • Proper usage of room tone and how to use it inside the audiobook
  • Understanding EQ and compressions and how and where to use them
  • How to EQ a dynamic microphone
  • How to master a file to ACX specs
  • How to export audio as per ACX Audible specs
  • How to use proper mic techniques and remove breaths and clicks from audio using Audacity Software.

Course content

4 sections13 lectures1h 6m total length
  • Sound like this in your audiobooks with free Audacity Software0:58

    Sound "AWESOME" in your audiobooks with professional editing in free Audacity Software and also pass ACX check.

  • The Correct Setup11:33

    Proper setup for recording audiobooks

  • Audacity Plugins For AudioBooks3:23

    The must have free audacity plugins for audiobook creation.

  • Metering,Recording Levels1:38

    How loud should you set your microphone at during audiobook recording.

  • Dog Trainer Trick3:23

    The simple trick to remove mistakes from your audiobook creation process.

Requirements

  • Be able to spend on recording setups such as mics and recording space.

Description

What is this course about?


This course is going to show you how to create fantastic sounding audiobooks using the free Audacity software. This course shows you how to build a home studio on a budget for audiobook creation, how to choose the perfect microphone suitable for your voice and your budget and also how to record audiobooks into Audacity with the perfect metering levels and then finally how to master and export your audiobook file after adding compression, EQ and breath removal effects.


Who is this course for?


This course is for anyone and everyone who wants to create fantastic sounding audiobooks using the free Audacity software. This is going to help you sound professional and take your audiobook sound to the next level using only the free Audacity software and nothing else.


If you are trying to sound better in your audiobooks, or looking to add that extra polish in your audiobooks, this course is going to help you achieve that using the free Audacity software.


You are going to learn professional editing techniques, professional punch and roll techniques, optimum use of a audacity plug-ins and mastering your file so it sounds like it's been recorded in an expensive studio and these audiobooks will also meet ACX/audible requirements.


Audacity is a very simple piece of recording software but if you know what you are doing it is really possible to sound like an expensive studio using the software and in this tutorial I am going to help you achieve just that with you audiobooks.


Who should not take this course?


If you are looking to use the Audacity free software for recording and editing music then this course is not for you because here we are only going to be talking about how to use the free Audacity software for recording and editing audiobooks.



Who this course is for:

  • Audiobook producers looking to create awesome quality audio through audacity and pass ACX
  • Voice-over artists looking to sound awesome without using any expensive DAW.
  • Authors looking to create audiobooks using free audacity software
  • Recording artists looking to edit and master audiobooks using Audacity