Audacity Compressor settings

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Audacity Compressor settings

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Any one understand and know a quick setting to make this sound good? 5 settings need to be adjusted, Threashold -12 db, noise floor -40db, ratio2to1, attack.2, decay 1 sec. what the fux suppoed to do with this, sounds like shit these factory settings
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Re: Audacity Compressor settings

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The best way to make Audacity sound good is to switch to something other than Audacity. Try REAPER.
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Re: Audacity Compressor settings

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The right settings for a compressor depend on your input signal. Unfortunately, the compressor in Audacity isn't capable of visualizing the signal as it goes through (probably a limitation in the plugin architecture), so there'd be a lot of experimentation involved.

In the meantime, here's a description of what the various settings of compressors actually do: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_range_compression
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