I have just updated my studio and my new audio interface has built in settings for EQ, NG, DeSS, Compression, and more. What I am trying to decide is if to continue sending the raw unprocessed audio to Audacity or not. Then using it to process the audio. The flip side would be to let the interface do the work.
What Have below are two recordings. One processed with my macros created in Audacity. The other is using the onboard processors on the interface and then using amplify in Audacity.
What I would like is to have you listen and say which sounds better to you. Or heck maybe you don’t like either one. That might have me rethink everything!
Also, I would like to say that my LOVE for Audacity continues to grow and thank you to all that help with its continued success.
I can’t listen right now but there are a couple of obvious considerations…
You can’t un-do what’s baked-into the recording.
Some effects are impossible in real time.
Sometimes you want to apply an effect to part of a track and that’s best handled in software.
Processing in real time while recording saves time later.
Sometimes you want to monitor effects while recording. Singers often like to hear a little reverb, etc. With a DAW or additional hardware there are other ways of getting that and/or you can record a track with effects, and one without, at the same time.
The effects might be (probably will be) different and you may prefer the hardware version.
With limiting there are “special” trade-offs… If you are limiting to prevent clipping your ADC, that can ONLY be done in hardware before digitization. On the other hand, once you have a digital file, the limiter can use look-ahead and you can get distortionless limiting. (Audacity’s Legacy Limiter has look-ahead and think the newer version doesn’t.)
That thought had not occurred to me. Thank you! I did some looking around and if I want to send RAW unprocessed audio to Audacity all I have to do it turn it off. I can definitely see where there will be times I will wan to do this.
Very interesting. For the record Ron 2 was in fact generated by the onboard processing of the interface. Ron 1 was the raw signal imported to Audacity and processed using my Macro.
About the bass aspect of recording. I turned off the High Pass filter because I didn’t think the low end had enough … oomph. I might rethink that.
