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Podcast: Get A Better Broadcast, Podcast and Voice-Over Voice
Episode: 0536 – Automatic Level Control
Description: 2022.06.20 – 0536 – Automatic Level ControlAutomatic Level Control versus ManualIn a home recording studio, your mixing desk or the recording set-up on a video call may have an ‘automatic level control’ that you can ‘set and forget’. They keep signals below distortion point, and when they fall too low they cut in and boost the signal upwards. But adjusting the recording levels manually gives you more control and creative freedom. You can use your professional judgement to choose settings to perfectly match different circumstances, instead of passing control to the machine, whose systems were...