

I had been playing with all sorts of combinations of tools and having reassurance that I don't need to use them all is very relieving. Hearing from you that Compression isn't -always- necessary is very confirming. I hope your post gets the visibility it deserves.

Audacity complicates the processing too much resulting in many users not be able to record.

In closing really I would not advocate using audacity for recording I would just use a simple recorder then use audacity for editing.

Maybe they work better than using compression yourself. I never use those but it can not hurt try. Would you use the LevelSpeach.NY or LevelSpeech2.NY plugins instead of any of the effects above? Why or why not? I rarely if ever use noise gate thus I have no need for chri's compressor. I just use the default compressor or CALF plugins compressor (mainly because of aesthetics). Would you use Chris's Compressor instead of Audacity's Built in Compressor? Why or why not? Why use two tools when there is one does exact same thing? Personally I prefer TAP Plugins scaling limiter but it only works for Linux. Would you use a Hard Limiter or a Soft Limiter? why? Which even in that case that is exactly what the leveller (compression and limiter) does. The compressor makes loud parts sound softer there by reducing the sound to a level consistent with average level of the track thus do not use compression to make tracks sound louder unless you're using the New York parallel compression hack. As side note compression does not make audio sound louder, the make up gain within the compressor does. If you happen to need use noise reduction on every recording then either you're environment is bad and has too much unwanted background noise or you're microphone settings are too sensitive.Ĭompressor only compress when necessary and most good speech recordings need little to no compression. If you have hum then use a notch filter instead. Noise reduction use when you remove unwanted noises like breaths or background noise. The best advice only use a tool when needed. And you can do it manually anyway by copying your recording and doing heavy compression on the copy, while leaving original unaffected while blending 2 tracks together.
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