Hey guys. I am troubleshooting an issue with self-produced audio voice recordings. I recorded a few  cabin announcements and processed them with Audacity, exporting them as .wav files. They play fine in MCE, but the volume is low. (That's how they were originally produced, as part of trial-and-error.) The strange thing is that no matter how much I amplify them in Audacity and re-save them, nothing seems to change in MCE. I have tried saving over, deleting and re-saving. removing the sound file from the flow and adding it back, etc. Nothing seems to change from the original trial. So, what I'm asking is whether MCE does anything to the .wav file when I first add it that explains why I can't seem to change it from the original no matter what I do or how I save or add it to the flow. Thanks!

2 hours ago, Tim_Capps said:

Hey guys. I am troubleshooting an issue with self-produced audio voice recordings. I recorded a few  cabin announcements and processed them with Audacity, exporting them as .wav files. They play fine in MCE, but the volume is low. (That's how they were originally produced, as part of trial-and-error.) The strange thing is that no matter how much I amplify them in Audacity and re-save them, nothing seems to change in MCE. I have tried saving over, deleting and re-saving. removing the sound file from the flow and adding it back, etc. Nothing seems to change from the original trial. So, what I'm asking is whether MCE does anything to the .wav file when I first add it that explains why I can't seem to change it from the original no matter what I do or how I save or add it to the flow. Thanks!

MCE doesn't automatically change volume levels. Should get what you have in the file.

That being said, need to be aware of a particular Windows 10 bug that can land you in that situation. This is why when you start Pepar3D or FSX, MCE automatically resets the Windows 10 audio panel to "Do nothing".(do not attenuate volume)

See this thread:

 

 

Thanks. Then it's just working with Audacity. (Never had any MCE volume issues.) I'm familiar with production, but more on the making-things-sound-better end. Using the high bypass filter to attenuate the audio also reduces amplitude. Going back over and amplifying it is not working as I want. I just have to work with it to get it sounding right, and that means fooling with different effects by trial-and-error. If anyone has any tips, they are welcome! The different flight attendant .wav files Dave has sound right. Now I just have to reverse engineer them.