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... expanders and I happened across this in the Nyqust dev board about Chris's compressor. Would this do the same thing as Couture if set to negative values then? What's ...

... Shot 2020-06-10 at 7.15.47.png Screen Shot 2020-06-10 at 7.32.33.png I change the first value from 0.5 to a stiffer 0.77. Chris is a look-ahead compressor, so it's much better at knowing ahead of time when there's going to be a change in volume. There are no surprises. There is a down side to ...

... are compressors and limiters that do some of these jobs, but I like Chris's Compressor which is a separate download and install. https://theaudacitytopodcast.com/chriss-dynamic-compressor-plugin-for-audacity/ ...

... effect built into Audacity. and I also read about a plugin named "Chris's Dynamic Compressor plugin for Audacity". That might help but I believe it was designed for music. Compression ...

... forum, I read about normalizing and I also read about a plugin named "Chris's Dynamic Compressor plugin for Audacity". I also read something about "clipping"; don't know what that ...

You can try Chris's Dynamic Compressor or the Leveller Effect. (The leveller is a "distortion effect" but it doesn't have to sound like distortion.)

There is also an older stand-alone program called The Levelator.

Abdiel wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 13, 2020 11:52 am

compress-dynamics plug in

Which plug-in is that? Is that "Chris Capel's" compressor?
If so, I would not recommend that effect for audiobooks.

I shall add "audiobook recording" to the topic title, which may draw the attention of people that specialize in this kind of recording.

... pre-baked tools whose job it is to do stuff like this. LevelSpeech and Chris's Compressor. Chris developed his compressor so he could listen to opera in the car. It made ...

... on recording wild performances, you can use a brute-force tool like Chris's Compressor to squash everything down to broadcast volume. I used to use it to compress podcast ...

... everything more or less matched and it was a matter of pushing Record and dropping the needle. Maybe not any more. You might also try that Chris Compressor thing. That one is applied to the whole "Tape" at once rather than each song. It will go through and push the loudnesses around to make everything ...