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Compression using Dynamics

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Compression using Dynamics

- Different types of audio need to be delivered differently. For example, a classical music concert or a jazz concert, will have some very soft parts and some really loud parts. And they should be left like that. However, there are other types of audio that don't need to have all kinds of different levels. Voiceover for example doesn't need to have all kinds of different levels. So, to make this possible, we can use compression. We can use compression for two main purposes, to level out the audio and then to take that audio and make it louder and more present in the mix. But if you overuse compression, then the audio will sound unnatural. But I do recommend adding compression to voice. Let's go ahead and open the sequence named 5.1 compression. So, sequence's bin, chapter five, 5.1 compression, double click it and of course it opens in the timeline. Just by looking at it, we can see that there are slightly different levels in…

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