[wplug] Audio: Compression Utility?

[Russ Schneider]

Robert E. Coutch wrote:
> 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.

Normalization does not remove spikes, it simply brings the volume up 
until the largest spike reaches the point just before clipping.  All 
levels remain relative to each other.



> This will sound like crap unless you decompress later.

That's what I always thought, but in talking with other musicians, you 
can play around with it to do nice things in terms of relative volume 
within a song.  I've heard some nice results.  As I said, I've touched 
upon it using Cakewalk, but I hate booting to windows just for that.
   I want something for Linux I can experiment with.

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