# Normalize and Compress?

**URL:** <https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/normalize-and-compress/48582>\
**Category:** Podcasting\
**Created:** [March 15, 2018, 10:15pm UTC](https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/normalize-and-compress/48582 "2018-03-15T22:15:24Z")\
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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:** [March 16, 2018, 8:34am UTC](https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/normalize-and-compress/48582/4 "2018-03-16T08:34:15Z")

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> [@nordic](#):
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> It’s for a podcast. Recording my voice directly into audacity. First I’m setting the gain, then doing noise reduction, then normalize and then compression.

[LevelSpeech2.NY](https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/improved-leveling-for-speech/33258/27) is an Audacity-plugin which is a compressor (& limiter) designed for speech.

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