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Please tell me there's some function on audacity that can match sound levels. Maybe volume, but not quality. Sometimes a performer will make a mistake and repeat the corrected performance immediately so as not to lose the pitch, rhythm and character of the voice. Go in later and cut out the bad par...

have never been up against such stringent requirements. ... by yourself. You are the recording engineer and mastering producer, probably for the first time. In radio broadcasting your work is followed by the transmitter processors up on the hill. You can be remarkably sloppy in the studio and the t...

We had Leveler that used a simple "knee" and would progressively squash waveform peaks as they got higher and higher. The newer "dynamic" Limiter worked so much better that Leveler was consigned to the bin behind the camper until a bunch of us rose up as one, dragged it back insi...

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Koz

The tools that everybody wants and the available tools are different. Everybody wants to set loudness and all the tools work in peak. You can get in the ballpark by cheating a bit. Open up your reference track and Effect > Amplify. Don't apply it and don't [_] Allow Clipping. Read the top number. Wr...

I don't know that it's an equalization problem. The curves are similar shapes, it's just that Track 18 is some 20dB quieter than Track 19. That's significant! That must show up on the blue waves. Don't you get the Track 18 blue waves collapsed at the bottom of the screen as opposed to Track 19? Koz

That's hopeless. Next time you record one of these, you should turn off the automatic voice processing, noise reduction and echo suppression. In short, casual recordings that can help, but in longer, lower volume recordings it will just kill you. It screws up rescues. And take the recorder out of yo...

I think that English came out wrong. You avoid the damage if you reduce the volume of the performance. After you create the damage, it's permanent. There's an oddity with Show Clipping. You can't actually have a tool which measures that. Because there is no sound over 100%, you can't measure the sou...

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Turns into this if you just reduce the post production volume. These three areas are permanently damaged.


Koz

There is a program called Clip Fix that tries to repair a single momentary overload (red) point, but it's really just guessing at it. It puts in the clean musical note it thinks might have been there based on notes before and after. Overload (clipping) is a point where the digital system stopped fol...