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Ideally there should be two different time values on an expander: attack (~0.01) & decay (~0.10). Steve's dynamic-mirror only has one value for both, so a compromise is required, (IMO ~0.035 for speech). ...so what do these values change? I realise we're using a compressor as an expander so no atta...

Thank you for showing me that. That resolution value is higher than I was using; I had 0.01, just (I think, if I understand it right) to squash the floor a little bit. It sounds nice at either really, without any need for NR, and that's what I want to avoid. There's not much extra noise at all rally...

Steve made a Nyquist Plugin called dynamic mirror which can expand but it's not as good as Couture: it doesn't allow different attack & release times, & I think there's a limit on how much it can process in one pass, (an hour ?). I'm only doing thirty-minute bits tops. I've installed this as an alt...

Audiobook Readers are a business and the business of being a business is to produce a marketable product for the least effort/time/materials. ACX is not going to give you extra points for lining up the most effects/patches/filters/corrections. That's sage advice; it *IS* very easy to get caught up....

Just to throw to another thread before this one gets put to bed, I've found that Couture seems to crash Audacity, at leaast my install does. Not all the time, but some of the time. And I was poking around the boards investigating expanders and I happened across this in the Nyqust dev board about Chr...

Trebor wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 17, 2020 12:32 pm

I would get the RMS to the required level, (using RMS normalize),
then apply Couture if I needed to bring the noise-floor down, and/or, dry-up slight room-reverb.

so squeeze it in before limiting on the ACX chain, if needed. Thank you, I'll have a play.

of course; as that's the highest noise loor value (as it were) that ACX accept. So lowering it is good. I get that now. But also lowering record level would do the same thing? No... it means the speech would be lower too. So where I record low and give a little +2db bump up, I can use Couture to pu...

Turning all the knobs to three o'clock & "x1" is what I usually have . That's enough to knock the noise-floor down by 6/7/8dB, but not so much that it sounds gated . alright then, I'll mess about with the settings and see what I can do. Thank you for the steer. Looking at the original pic posted of...

I would try an expander plugin (like Couture ) first to squish down the noise-floor (~6dB) when you're not speaking, before resorting to Noise-Reduction. ...and that's because noise reduction is destructive, whereas this just - as you say - squashes the quiet bits to be quieter? Still new to most o...

That does look fancy! I've installed it and I'll give that a shot, I've clicked at some things but I really am only guessing that it's something to do with the knob bottom left, the other controls just make me sound funny. I assume the red track is the modified waveform vs. the original? I mean I me...