Ah! Ok, thank you Paul. Now i get the idea. I'm just irritated by the application of it to the entire recording, which seems to be the way some ?studios? are going. I'm not sure at what level of control it's done at. I concur that most people don't listen to music the way that i do, nor on the kinds of equipment that i do. Is it really about selling more music? I'm still not convinced that it sounds better on average consumer level electronics though. If the complaint is about some passages being too quiet because there is too much dynamic range, well that's not the kind of music it's done on anyway is it? If the idea is to make the whole thing subjectivly louder why not just leave it to the listener to turn up the volume? Some of the things i have that are compressed aren't even played on the radio. I can only really speak to that in the States though so i'd admit i was wrong quickly on that one. Bearcat > On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 10:16:44AM -0600, Bearcat M. Sandor wrote: >> Charles, >> >> I'm learning too, and i thank you all for that. >> >> I'll have to play around with that LADSPA plug-in see what sound i get >> out >> of it. >> >> When you speak of compressing vocals do you mean removing the top and >> bottom frequences which then accentuates the mid-range on some systems? > > No: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_level_compression > > -- > > Paul Winkler > http://www.slinkp.com > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user