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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

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

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