Audacity Forum

Greetings all, However on my laptop running Windows 10, I get poor / muffled sounds when recording. Dominick aka Psychedelic Relic Windows 10 is the culprit. Clean off all the crapware. And check EVERY default setting win 10 hides so you wont know about them. So called enhancements is one of them. ...

There is an option to add make up gain to 0dBFS which I left unchecked as I did not want any make up gain. This is another weirdness of the current compressor. If you compress based on RMS and have "make up gain to 0dB" turned off, then the high level signal is compressed down with no make up gain....

it should give me the option for the amount of make up gain to use if any. You can always turn off "Make up gain" and then apply the Amplify or Normalize effects with the amount of make up gain that you want. I did not see any place to turn off make up gain. It just seems to default to -1 dBFS. Not...

The Audacity Compressor effect will soon be getting some long overdue TLC. Wowee. That would be useful. I had the impression the folks doing audacity were going to switch to Chris Compressor or at best just keep the old one around not make changes to it. My experience is the compressor seems good b...

Threshold seems to be the level after compression not the threshold to start compressing at. The ratio seems to work right but the display does not show the ratio starting at the threshold. So please tell me what that display is really telling me. As you have observed, the graph does not tell the f...

olde geezer I alternate between gaffer, duffer, geezer, and fart. Today's Saturday? Fart. Chris new compressor 1.2.6 is the last known good "classic" one. There's two tricks to making Chris work. Put a chunk of "fake" show before and after the "real" show. Chris doesn't like sailing off the end of ...

A good free compressor plugin which works in Audacity in Windows is "Red Phatt Pro" ... https://forum.audacityteam.org/download/file.php?id=26863 https://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?p=392696#p392696 All the numbers (ratio threshold etc) appear where the word "listen" is on the above image....

We use an A&H Qu mixing board at church and the compression display there is 100.00000% logical to me. The audacity compressor seems at best backwards or at worst totally nonsense. I am an olde geezer so please tell me how to make sense of the compressor. I need to run some tests to find better ways...

... I've never seen a Nyquist plugin which works in real-time. ... https://www.kvraudio.com/product/gmulti-by-gvst NB: Only 32-bit plug-ins will work in Audacity on Windows, even if your computer is 64-bit. @Trebor, Thanks. I will check out the ones you suggested. I really should get up to date on ...

Koz, Thanks for that info. Sorry to hear about Chris. I will try the settings you suggested. I had picked some random ones and the results were an improvement for sure! Could you possibly help explain the way the older compressor that shipped with audacity works? The settings make no sense they way ...