Comments on: Chris’s dynamic compressor

By: Koz

Koz — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:28:39 +0000

Since you’re so terrific at separating and managing sound levels within a performance, I wonder how hard it would be to not change the performance volume and dynamics at all and gently drop the room noise or background trash between words. I wonder if maybe it couldn’t be done with the existing tools…

Koz

By: Koz

Koz — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 02:00:00 +0000

I think I may need to change one of the settings on Compressor.

I have been getting fresh clips with slightly high background hum level. When I listen with no processing, I don’t notice it, but Compressor digs too far down in the work to bring the show volume up and the hum is much more apparent after processing, particularly in the pauses between dialog.

Koz
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By: Lee

Lee — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:21:28 +0000

Installed Audacity 1.3.11 in Karmic 64 bit (from the launchpad repository) and all is now quite well…there seems to be quite a bit less memory usage, too. Thanks!

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By: Steve D

Steve D — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:11:15 +0000

@Lee
Nyquist (in Audacity) was not fully compatible with Linux 64. This should be fixed in the current 1.3.11 version.

If you are not wanting to build Audacity from source, Daily builds for Ubuntu are available here: https://launchpad.net/~audacity-team/+archive/daily

Also, Audacity currently keeps the sound file in memory while processing, so processing very large files can exhaust the computers available RAM.

By: Russell Wood

Russell Wood — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:12:38 +0000

I’m slowly converting all my old LPs to digital, using Audacity. My old DGG/Karajan version of Dvorak’s ‘New World’ has HUGE swings in volume. Thanks to your dynamic compressor, it’s now listenable without noise-cancelling headphones! Thanks!

By: Lee

Lee — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:39:13 +0000

This is the terminal generated output; I’m running Ubuntu 9.10 64-bit

ERROR: Could not find sinewave.raw in rawwaves. Something is wrong with the installation or configuration.

; loading “/usr/share/audacity/nyquist/init.lsp”
SETDIR: No such file or directory
Set *default-sf-dir* to “/home/xxx” in fileio.lsp
AutoNorm feature is on.
Default sound file is xxx-temp.wav.
system.lsp : *RUNTIME-PATH* = /usr/share/audacity/nyquist/

Nyquist — A Language for Sound Synthesis and Composition
Copyright (c) 1991,1992,1995,2007-2009 by Roger B. Dannenberg
Version 3.03

By: Lee

Lee — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:34:03 +0000

This is a great plugin, however, Audacity 1.3 beta tends to crash when running ‘Compress dynamics’ on very long music files (greater than 60 minutes). Is there a fix/update?

By: Mary

Mary — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:19:23 +0000

This is just what I need! Unfortunately, each time I run the compression, Audacity (1.3 beta) crashes. Any suggestions?
Many thanks,
Mary

By: Solo

Solo — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:35:28 +0000

Saweet!!!! Great plugin!