On Fri, 10 Oct 2014 11:55:20 +0200
Peder Hedlund <peder@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> Quoting Jonathan Gazeley <Jonathan.Gazeley@email-addr-hidden>:
>
> >> * In most cases peaks are very short, and a peak limiter will
> >> remove them and allow 5 dB or more extra gain without any
> >> perceptible artefacts. The best one for this is zita-dpl1
> >> which was designed exactly for this type of use. I've used
> >> it on all recordings I made the last years, without exception.
> > This sounds helpful. I will experiment with this. It might not help
> > though, since in my case, the peaks are not normally too short. The
> > loudest parts are full choir and pipe organ, while the quietest
> > parts are solo voice.
> In that case you might need to use some gain automation to raise the
> solo voice instead of squashing the choir.
> It's relatively easy to do that in Ardour.
> http://en.flossmanuals.net/ardour/ch044_using-automation/
You can also use "parallel compression" to raise the level of more
quiet parts a few dB without compressing the peaks.
-- Joakim _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@email-addr-hidden http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-userReceived on Fri Oct 10 16:15:01 2014
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