Are you an audiobook creator who uses Audacity as your editing software of choice? This free course is centered around Audacity and only Audacity for audiobook creation. No 3rd party plugins are required or used. IMPORTANT: This free course is based on Audacity version 3.0.5. This means that if you have a later version of the program your screen may look a little different than what’s in the course but the functionality is the same.

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.

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

Each lesson 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.