Audacity Forum

I ran some tests a while back on comparing the performance and results of pngcrush, optipng (a fork of pngcrush; I have no clue why it needed to be forked), and pngout. Pngout produced PNGs smaller than pngcrush/optipng about the same as it did larger and actually destroyed the embedded ICC profile...

Steve, you just posted what I know exactly already. You mentioned "The way that the hard limiter works is that it clips the peaks, though it can be set to do so more gently than hacking off the peaks flat.". This is exactly what I want, isn't it? dB limit sets the cutoff threshold. Residue level set...

I already know exactly what Hard Limiter does. When there are really high sharp peaks that prevent the rest of the music from reaching an appropriate level, they need to be lowered so the track can be amplified without the peaks clipping. Hard Limiter sounds like it's exactly the tool to do that. It...

<<<The Hard Limiter was exactly what I was looking for.>>> Then you win. Hard Limiting is a special purpose effect -- like a fuzz guitar -- that can do serious damage to the sound. That's why it's not right at the top of our recommendations. Koz I can see how sample precision lowers when you decrea...

You're all worthless The Hard Limiter was exactly what I was looking for. I know what each slider does and I use it all the time now.

Hopefully at least one of you learned something new.

That is an inconvenience since I use Fedora 12 on my laptop and Vista SP2 on my desktop where I do my real stuff and haven't gotten around to dual-booting. I'll give those a try, however, so thanks.

Really talented bands (or at least ones who are obsessive over the mixing) generally release their songs where most notes peak the channels, without overflowing. A really good example is any song from Linkin Park's Meteora album, if you have a copy of it to rip to Flac. I've been given the task of f...