# Compressor Causing Low Volume at Beginning of Sentences

**URL:** <https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/compressor-causing-low-volume-at-beginning-of-sentences/47926>\
**Category:** Audio Processing\
**Created:** [January 15, 2018, 7:29am UTC](https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/compressor-causing-low-volume-at-beginning-of-sentences/47926 "2018-01-15T07:29:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Trebor](https://forum.audacityteam.org/user_avatar/forum.audacityteam.org/trebor/32/45854_2.png) [@Trebor](https://forum.audacityteam.org/u/Trebor)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2018, 10:28am UTC](https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/compressor-causing-low-volume-at-beginning-of-sentences/47926/2 "2018-01-15T10:28:50Z")

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> [@NilkadNaquada](#):
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> it also brings down the volume near the beginning of a sentence, so it sort of fades in from silence to full speaking volume. Will tweaking the settings in the compressor tool allow to me to fix this …

Sounds like the [attack-time on the compressor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_range_compression#Attack_and_release) is too slow.  
I use 10-20ms attack,(a/k/a rise-time), when compressing speech, with ~100ms release time.

Could try this plugin instead … [LevelSpeech2.NY](https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/improved-leveling-for-speech/33258/27)

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