Audacity Forum

... work so good when you're listening on earphones. I started using Chris's Compressor on the shows before I put them on my music player. Chris designed his compressor ...

Chris's Compressor is only partially developed. It doesn't like the ends of a performance. For example, it is recommended ...

Could you possibly help explain the way the older compressor that shipped with audacity works? No. I have no idea. I can probably guess what they're doing by the graphics and instructions, but I have no actual touchy-feely experience with them solving ...

... you suggested. I had picked some random ones and the results were an improvement for sure! Could you possibly help explain the way the older compressor that shipped with audacity works? The settings make no sense they way the diagram moves. And they totally differ from how A&H does it on ...

compress dynamics (is that Chris' compressor?) That's the one. I don't think it's useful to try and change Chris's settings. Just to know the metaphors and results. He designed the compressor so he could listen ...

... to dial in directly all the values and know it will do what I asked for it without guessing. I also have the compress dynamics (is that Chris' compressor?) which is even more bizarre as I have no idea what the result would be based on the parameters I can set. So even more playing and guessing. ...

I tried Chris's Compressor, applied up to five times, however am still finding significant differences in volume in sections several ...

it's usually best to normalize to 0dB before applying the compressor. And that's the step that Chris doesn't need. There is no requirement that the show get within range first. It's not open-ended, however. You can't put trash in there and it won't solve ...

There is another way to do this. Chris wrote his custom compressor so he could listen to opera in the car. It's job is to even out volumes ... his beer and the other had a thermo-nuclear laugh. No compression. I apply Chris's Compressor with the first value, compression ratio, upped from 0.5 to ...

... not the only way to get magic software. There is a very good audio compressor and processor called Chris's Compressor. He designed it so he could listen to opera in the car. It removes the wide ...