Technical
When to export WAV vs. MP3?
This is a question I get frequently from my students. And it's a reasonable one. I have a simple rule of thumb when it comes to determining which is appropriate: Will the recipient of the audio need to make changes to the audio? If the answer is ...
What is room tone and why does each file need it? (ACX)
The following article is a slightly edited version of a post originally shared on the ACX site. Room tone is the background noise in a room. It is sometimes referred to as the noise floor. For audiobook purposes, room tone is the sound in your studio ...
Understand ACX (and similar) Submission Requirements related to Loudness
ACX measures loudness using decibels (dB). The scale starts at 0 dB (the point at which audio starts to distort) and moves down from there into negative numbers. I like to think about it as if I am a fish and 0 dB is the lake surface. If I'm above ...
File Naming Conventions
People have different approaches, but most approaches have this in common: they facilitate organization, sorting, and coordinating your upload to ACX (or other platform). My approach is described below. It does not need to be your approach, but I do ...