[Ardour-Users] Locate peaks

[Brett Clark]

This sounds like the use-case for a compressor.  Although i dont record
speech, i always run song vocals through a compressor to bring down the
peaks and raise the quiet parts to make it more consistent.  You mentioned
being a "beginner" so im not sure how much detail you want, or need, for
using a compressor plugin.  The caveat for using compression is that it can
also raise the noise floor ( that background hiss you hear when listening
closely ).

--Brett





On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 3:46 AM, Alf Haakon Lund <alf at mellomrommet.no>
wrote:

> Dear list,
>
> Forgive my beginner's qustion, but I searched manuals and the web. Still
> dumbfounded I turn to You:
>
> Is there a Way to find the peak of a region? Just looking at the waveform
> does not appear precise or efficient enough to me.
>
> I have about 80 minutes of raw interview recorded, and as is often the
> case with speech, the levels vary. Before normalising / further processing
> I want to locate the loudest spots and edit them out or lower the gain. How
> best to achieve this?
>
> Thankful for any and all input
>
> Al F
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