Subject:compression

Posted by: samcat

Date:7/10/2006 5:23:34 PM

I have noticed when I use compression (soft) as in wave hammer it raises the noise floor so quiet parts of the music sounds like the noise you hear on a phonography record at the beginning of the record, "white noise". Any ideas?

Subject:RE: compression

Reply by: jumbuk

Date:7/10/2006 6:01:06 PM

That is exactly what you would expect to happen. The solution is to use a gate or (better) a downwards expander to reduce the noise. The Sony graphic dynamics plug-in can be used to do this. Do a search on this forum - there was a simlar discussion a while back.

Subject:RE: compression

Reply by: garrigus

Date:7/10/2006 6:09:50 PM

Hi Samcat,

Check out this article...

Using Compression and Compressors for Audio Recording
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Subject:RE: compression

Reply by: Geoff Edwards

Date:7/21/2006 7:37:46 AM

If you are getting a lot of noise when compressing your audio check to make sure that you are a) recording your signal at a decent level to begin with. If your original recording is too soft it may be buried in the noise and when you compress you will get unpleasant results. b) Some sound cards are inherently noisey as well so when you compress they accentuate this.

Good luck.

G.