Using volume envelope to feed compressor

MartinE wrote on 3/1/2017, 8:08 AM

I am an amateur editing a wedding in VP13 and the main sound track for the ceremony is a single stereo track (actually it’s in MS with a decoder as a track Fx). Anyhow I want to apply a small amount of compression (3-4db) to each speaker but the speakers are at widely different levels on the track. Now in the past I have I have split the track into sections and applied a compressor Fx on each of the new events. However, is it possible to avoid splitting the single event and use a single compressor downstream of the track fader, maybe on an aux bus and use a track volume envelope to keep the feed to the compressor at a uniform level, this seems to me to be a much more elegant solution. What would you guys normally do in this situation?

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JMacSTL wrote on 3/1/2017, 11:17 AM

Two ways to do this: use the clip gain (right click--switches--normalize if you need MORE gain) to adjust the gain of each clip so the compressor works the same for all or most.

or:

Remove any compressors from each track of audio: then make a Bus that you then SEND all audio tracks to, and put the compressor(s) on the Bus. This way, the volume for each track will control how hard you're hitting the compressor.

MartinE wrote on 3/1/2017, 12:22 PM

Thanks flyerstl I'll try the bus idea.