On Fri, 10 Oct 2014 11:55:20 +0200 Peder Hedlund <peder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Quoting Jonathan Gazeley <Jonathan.Gazeley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > >> * In most cases peaks are very short, and a peak limiter will > >> remove them and allow 5 dB or more extra gain without any > >> perceptible artefacts. The best one for this is zita-dpl1 > >> which was designed exactly for this type of use. I've used > >> it on all recordings I made the last years, without exception. > > This sounds helpful. I will experiment with this. It might not help > > though, since in my case, the peaks are not normally too short. The > > loudest parts are full choir and pipe organ, while the quietest > > parts are solo voice. > In that case you might need to use some gain automation to raise the > solo voice instead of squashing the choir. > It's relatively easy to do that in Ardour. > http://en.flossmanuals.net/ardour/ch044_using-automation/ You can also use "parallel compression" to raise the level of more quiet parts a few dB without compressing the peaks. -- Joakim _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
