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includes low & hi pass filters They folded it into Mastering whose first step is the Low Rolloff rumble filter. If there was ever a post that prompts the Puzzled Puppy Look, this one is it. PuzzledPuppy.png Apparently, its a third party compressor which makes it much more difficult to find the ...

And yet. The posters noise seems to have gotten 7dB better with the compressor. ????? I was able to get -78.22db after running filter curve, loudness normalization, a compression add-on, limiter and then noise removal. Without the compressor, in that same order, I was -71.38 on the same file. I don'...

If that's what it is, you should be careful with it. If it's set to the exact or close to the actual noise volume, you could get background noise pumping or noise shifting in and out. ACX hates sound processing like that.

Compressor settings are not for the easily frightened.

Koz

inevitably increase the noise-floor to some degree.

I've never seen a compressor make noise better either, but. Is there a noise gate built in? Could that be what the Noise Floor setting is?

Koz

Up in the tools there's a speaker symbol with a slider. Is the slider turned up?

Koz

Echo reduction is relatively easy because your voice has to go through the curtains twice. Once on the way out, bounce, and then again on the way back. It decreases at each step. The return on investment is pretty good. We publish known working recommendations. If you find something that works for y...

I had to remove/change any track titles that had symbols first, otherwise I got an error message. Upper case letters, lower case letters, numbers, -dash- and _underscore_. Those are the only safe characters to use in filenames. Use ISO dates. Today is 2020-10-07. No slashmarks. Windows people are a...

We hope a great deal you have the interview in WAV and not MP3. The MP3 sound format creates similar sound distortion and if you patch and filter an MP3 track enough times, the compression distortion actually gets worse.

Never do production in MP3.

Koz

One of the odd problems with posting about this is describing it. It doesn't sound like anything else in real life. Are their any ways to possibly improve this? I was able to get some tiny, marginal improvement in a similar problem by surgically copying some of those vibrating word tails onto their ...

The 100th MP3 file was terrible.

We should remember MP3's full family name is MPEG1-Layer 3. It's part of a video format designed and released in 1993.

It's 27 years old.

Koz