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I guess my key question is still - do any of these plugins even out the loudness of sections several minutes apart? Compression, AGC, & LevelSpeech will all reduce the dynamic-range. Usually downward compression: sounds above a threshold are turned down. When I put that track behind the spoken ...

Bert Coules wrote: ↑

Wed Jul 15, 2020 11:30 am

... I'd be grateful for any comments..
COWS_A_Wed15th.wav (1.02 MiB)

There is still noticeable (bassy) reverb from the room.
It can be reduced by cutting the bass & expanding ...
But the real cure is more acoustic treatment for the room.

Ok. Given the main issue - that it is pretty even within any given section several seconds long, and the main problem is between differences many seconds apart - would this suggest normalization would still be a good first step? Normalization, (RMS or Peak), applies a constant gain-change cross the...

I have a 2 second playback delay issue--I have since the beginning ... For me Audcaity on Windows 8 has an annoying ~½ second delay between hitting play and playback starting. The delay on rendering the waveform after an effect is applied is longer: ~3 seconds. Old versions of Audacity on previous ...

... should I also make an adjustment to the "Threshold" setting, and if yes, how should I decide what to use? The threshold depends on the volume of music, try using the RMS value ... suggestion for slow background music.png The attack & release also depend on the tempo of the music: ...

Unless you can hear above 15kHz the difference in the upper-limits is academic.

MoPro wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 14, 2020 3:30 am

I can't find ''De-esser'' anywhere ...

It is attached to the bottom of the first post of this thread ...
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And I can't figure out from the wave form where it's at ... Feeling Lazy.mp3 (38.39 KiB) The clicks are vertical lines on the spectrogram , (rather than the waveform). Vertical lines (2kHz-17kHz) are the clicks.png Paul-L's de-clicker plugin, (or $tore bought de-clicker plugin), is the cure. Sugges...

A compressor is the answer, preferably one which takes into account the "psychoacoustic" peculiarities of human hearing . A real-time compressor plug-in is better than Audacity's native one. as you can adjust the parameters as it's playing, e.g. I have tried the compressor with the default...