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Chris's Dynamic Compressor works pretty well on that. I used the following settings: Compression Ratio: 1.0 Maximum Amplitude: 0.8 Everything else at the defaults. If you want to turn it up to 11, use the fast lookahead limiter after the compressor with these settings: Input gain: 2.0 Limit: -0.3 R...

kozikowski wrote:The blue waves are nice, but I can't mess with them--other than Photoshop.

I'm almost to the point where it feels like I'm editing in photoshop, j/k

Here's a few minutes cut up http://arkive.us/MixCutup.wav

To produce a simple multi-band dynamic compressor effect: In this case we will just use two bands, bass and treble, though the method can be expanded to more bands if you wish. 1) Open Audacity and Import your audio track. 2) Select the entire track and duplicate it (Ctrl+D) 3) Use the highpass fil...

I tried out the envelope tool and the result of 5minutes or so of work is about half a second worth of audio: http://arkive.us/envelopehalfsecond.png Zooming out you can quickly multiply the amount of work it would take to get just 5 seconds done: http://arkive.us/envelope5seconds.png Are there any ...

Carol752, if you wrote anything I missed it. I only see a quote :/ I gave the compressed version another listen in the car and noticed that during parts of the song where the bassline drops out all of the high end gets really loud (ambient synths etc). So the compressor, with the default settings, i...

Xyz_39808 wrote:But please, do keep in mind that differences in dynamics are important.

How do you mean exactly?

The other dynamics compressor that I use is "SC4". I think it's one of Steve Harris's collection. Is a dynamic compressor the same as a look-ahead compressor? I'm now looking at your original question... With a DJ mix where some songs are louder than others and also some songs that are too loud but...

I've listened to it now and it seems like the highs were amplified, the mids were a bit muddy and the lowend was amplified but sounds a bit square. Also it seems like a lot of the pops and clicks on the vinyl were amplified. Are there any recommended settings for this compressor? Are there any other...

This is what it looks like after using the compress dynamics (with the default settings). I haven't had a listen yet but I'll post back once I have to see how it sounds. http://arkive.us/compressdynamics.png It looks like it created a few peaks. Are there recommended settings to prevent this? What I...

With a DJ mix where some songs are louder than others and also some songs that are too loud but adjusted (during recording), what would be the best way to even this out? Full Project http://arkive.us/recording.png I've tried zooming in and normalizing (no dc offset, -6 dB sometimes) as picture below...