[wplug] Audio: Compression Utility?

[Robert E. Coutch]

Are you sure you want compression?

Your original message stated you wanted to remove spikes, etc.
Normalization does this by bringing the levels to a common amount 
depending on the sources.  If you have a bunch of .wav's with good 
levels and one with some spikes, normalizing them will bring levels down 
in the spiked file.

If you compress the .wav, all levels will be forced to a common level.
This will sound like crap unless you decompress later.

Compression is good for Ham Radio and guitars but not for an MP3 encoded 
song.

IMHO

-Bob


Russ Schneider wrote:

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> Robert E. Coutch wrote:
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>> I use a program actually named normalize.
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> I read the README/Faq and see nothing on compression, only on volume 
> adjustment across an entire track.  It sounds like a good normalizer, 
> and I may grab it, but not a compressor.
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