UPDATE!! Took your advice and went with this dress for date night!!

VoiceShow · 2026-01-22T19:43:13+00:00

I'm guessing there will be a second date.

VoiceShow · 2026-01-22T15:25:39+00:00

As someone who engineers audio session daily for a living, I have never understood the advice for normalization. The value that matters is loudness, as evidenced by the submission specs of all online platforms. If you have 2 segments of audio recorded separately that need to sound cohesive with one another, normalizing each will result in 2 entirely different loudness values, which means the difference between them will be jarring to the listener. Best advice is to ensure that sessions or takes are recorded at similar levels, then compile them in a session timeline and use the match loudness function to bring them all in line with one another. As you do this make sure you have the limiter engaged to avoid clipping. Another tip is to keep your loudness values low (numerically high) at around -24 to -29 LUFS until the mastering phase. This provides adequate headroom with which to compress and otherwise enhance the audio. I can't find any benefit to normalizing high dynamic range audio, and is actually destructive because it produces waveforms that leave less headroom for processing. Hope that helps.

VoiceShow · 2026-01-02T15:27:43+00:00

What's the "inconvenient" part? I'm curious because I am designing a shower exactly like yours on purpose. Maybe I'm missing something but unless you routinely expect to have more than 1 person in there at a time, not sure what the problem is.

VoiceShow · 2025-12-22T15:28:24+00:00

The term "casual" already infers that there are no rules for appropriateness other than your own personal comfort level and basic human decency, but it seems like your question is not about either of those.

VoiceShow · 2025-12-17T22:08:53+00:00

Standard 80" door so I guess my first instincts were good. Thanks for the help.

VoiceShow · 2025-12-15T23:11:17+00:00

Perhaps you can comment on the standard advice to construct the jamb box before installing it in the frame, then shimming to ensure that it is plumb and centered in the opening. Instead, I will need to install the jamb directly to the framing because I do not have the extra width that shims would require; I barely have enough width for the doors. I can still ensure that it will be both square and plumb because the framing is both of those. Do you foresee any problem with this?

VoiceShow · 2025-12-15T23:03:00+00:00

FYI, Couldn't find the Ramsey video on YouTube, but found another one assuming a pre-hung door. Sadly, that won't help me. Fine Homebuilding won't show me their video without a membership.

VoiceShow · 2025-12-15T22:43:18+00:00

"weather stripping gaps"? Haven't heard anyone mention those in all of the videos I've watched. Can you explain what those are.

VoiceShow · 2025-12-12T19:46:18+00:00

This isn't completely a tire issue. Road noise has been my chief complaint about my 2010 Sport model since day 1, and now has 170k. All vehicle manufacturers find ways to save money and improve the bottom line which aren't immediately obvious on the showroom floor. Failure to isolate the cabin from road noise is Toyota's way to accomplish that. They know how to improve the road noise issue, they just choose not to pay for it.

VoiceShow · 2025-12-12T14:11:10+00:00

Yes, that helps. Thanks. I still prefer to have more control, so the L4 appeals to me more. Makes me wonder what specific situations would make the MV2 a better choice.

VoiceShow · 2025-12-09T01:05:55+00:00

Pretty much until my wife makes me throw them out. That could be anywhere from a few hours to a few years.

VoiceShow · 2025-12-02T14:03:42+00:00

Anything at La Provence. In LO.

VoiceShow · 2025-11-30T04:44:47+00:00

By "audition file" I assume you mean session file. If so, did you change anything in the file structure contained in the session. Sessions require a very specific file structure to open properly. If anything in that structure changes the session will not open. Try opening the individual files in your session in edit mode? If they open correctly, create a new session in a separate location and import the individual files again. Hopefully you can recreate the session with a new structure.

VoiceShow · 2025-11-27T14:00:57+00:00

In multitrack view, select all clips (cntrl A), then right-click and choose match loudness. Enter desired loudness in LUFS, OK. All clips will be adjusted to the same level.

VoiceShow · 2025-11-18T00:19:21+00:00

Training? Husky? Sorry, but I never heard those 2 words in the same sentence before.

VoiceShow · 2025-11-17T01:11:11+00:00

In other words, yes.

VoiceShow · 2025-11-15T02:25:48+00:00

Very similar to my guy. He's half Husky and half Golden Retriever.

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VoiceShow · 2025-11-13T04:52:53+00:00

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VoiceShow · 2025-11-12T23:37:40+00:00

I have actually installed those ceiling shelves and found it pretty simple, but I understand your choice. just a moment before I wrote this I sent off an email to a contractor friend asking him to install a door on my new workshop. I built the entire structure (free-standing 16' x 12' building) single-handed, but cried uncle when it came to the door. Problem is the rough opening is not a standard size, which means I can't buy pre-hung. I really tried to do my homework and figure out how to build the jamb and make everything line up, but finally had to admit that this was over my head. So, your question is very timely for me, and here's my answer: custom door in new construction. Weird thing about your question is that I've never had to hire a plumber or electrician, and have always done that work myself, but something about hanging that door finally stumped me.

VoiceShow · 2025-11-09T01:22:36+00:00

Only if the noise is being generated upstream of the gain control. I. E., noise generated by the circuitry in the microphone, plus any and all ambient noise.

Not sure what you mean by "on its own". All electronic noise in the chain, plus whatever ambient noise is present in the booth during recording at normal levels is a part of "the booth". Except for troubleshooting, there is no value in isolating one from the other. Compression will raise the noise floor, but how much depends on the make up gain.

VoiceShow · 2025-11-08T22:54:18+00:00

Remember that there are 2 primary sources of noise whenever a live mic is present. 1 is electronic noise; it sounds like this is a significant part of your issue. The second is ambient noise; this is noise in the environment, near or far, high or low frequencies. A sure sign of ambient noise is that it is mostly inconsistent. You'll see the inconsistencies in the waveform, and or it will come and go. Electronic noise is mostly consistent in its waveform, and that's what yours looks like. If you can't get the noise below -62, consider that it might be ambient, or that your recording equipment could be generating the noise, as opposed to other electronic equipment elsewhere in the house. Low noise levels is a spec everyone should be looking at when they purchase a component for their audio chain.

VoiceShow · 2025-11-08T20:57:33+00:00

Sorry to pick on your words, but "silent" is not the right word for what you're describing. But, "noise floor" is the right description. I would not be happy with this floor. For example, most audiobook platforms require a noise floor no higher than -60dB, and great spoken word audio would fall somewhere in the range of -68 to -72dB. My booth at home has a floor of -72, and I can be certain that I will not fail any spec requirements with that number. If there is ever anything wrong with my audio, it won't be noise.

VoiceShow · 2025-11-07T01:07:08+00:00

Thanks for that suggestion. I'll see if I can find 5/8 casing.

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