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I'm looking for a tutorial, or at least a brief description, of the effects included in ladspa-0.4.15.exe -- where might I find such an animal?

I was attempting to mix and render a "fixed" right channel of a stereo recording and upon completion revert the project back to stereo track. The mix and render step seemed to work just fine -- but when I attempted to re-open the wave project, the re-mixed-and-re-rendered Right track was now far out...

Sort of related follow-up...got the ladspa-0.4.15.exe installed where it belongs, got 'em all. Is there a tutorial for these available anywhere, or any sort of brief description of which one does what?

After a weekend's worth of experimenting, with inconsistent results, I'm wondering if somebody can help me derive a "common language" between % of normalization and dB numbers. Referring to my initial post in this chain, suppose I have percussive spikes at about 90% and the bulk of a music file peak...

A "Limiter" is certainly the right effect for the job, though I think that the "Hard Limiter" effect will probably be a bit too aggressive. There is a more refined Limiter called "Fast Lookahead Limiter" by Steve Harris which I believe is available in the "90 LADSPA Plug-ins" set that you can get fr...

Began experimenting with the compressor effect today, with uncertain results. I'm attempting to eliminate the percussive spikes so typical or over-emphasis on drums during a recording. For example... On a given track, I can tell that the percussion spikes (which really add nothing melodically) are a...

This worked absolutely spot-on perfectly. Thanks for the detail.

I guess I don't understand this as well as I thought I did, because I couldn't get it done last night. I selected the opening riff from the Left track, did a control-D duplicate which appeared below the Right track (with which I wanted to merge the duplicate.) I selected both the Right track, and th...

I am editing a lot of my MP3 files to make new compilation CDs. In general, I want to maximize the actual music and or vocal levels, and decrease the spiky intrusion of over-loud percusion "hits" during playback. I've been manually normalizing the spikes themselves to more closely reflect the levels...

You might want to get comfortable with the concept of decibels - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decibel -- Bill[/quote] I'm noddingly familiar of what is being measured by the dB number. What is not so clear is, what number I should be looking for as a viable target? Do I simply trust the default numb...