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westg8
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Hello. I'm a newbie to pc recording and my band has been working on an album to hand out to family and friends. Thus far, we have 8 recorded, and 4 more to go. I'm using cool edit pro, and i'm confused about how the compression works. I've tried to understand it by reading articles on compression, but all of these deal with compression on hard disk recorders or portable devices, not software. There are many presets in CEP, but none of them work real well for me. The compression button is actually called Dynamics (Compressor/Limiter/Noise Gate/Expander). Can someone please explain what everything does inside this feature do? For example, there's a graph part with an x and y axis, theres a Gain processor, a level detector, and so forth. I haven't dealt with compression before so i'm not too good about using it. Please help if anyone can explain this.