Well, this started out as a short email and morphed into a semi lesson and I thought I might include a few extra people because the info might be of some use to some of you.  I’m also thinking about writing a blog on the website in the kind of style, so I’d like some feedback on that idea please. Ultimately, I want to document everything I am working on so that we have a sort of library of ideas, techniques and projects. After I made the first version of the Amcal DBK Apnea Spot, I quickly realised that it wasn’t actually very good and I needed a version 2.0. That’s because in the first version, the way I ran the compression on the VO (voice over) track emphasised Jutas in-breath in a hilariously awful way, making it sound like she was gasping for every word.  I couldn’t leave it like that.  I still don’t know how I missed it, but that first version went to air probably 4 or 5 times before I realised. Below is some explaination of what I did wrong and how I fixed it. Simple Version: we use an audio processing technique called compression to … Continue reading Compression, Production Techniques and Ardour Digital Audio Workstation