Hello,

I make youtube teaching videos and my audio post-production routine was:

Normalize to 0.0 / Limiter to -2 / Noise Reduction

On a whim, I decided to try something different:

Normalize to 0.0 / Limiter to -10 / Normalize again to -3 / Noise reduction

To my untrained ear, it sounds fine. I like the idea that more of the lower sounding audio will get amplified to a more reasonable level. Instead of (in the old way) if there was one particularly loud sample, the rest of what was recorded might not get normalized as loudly.

Does this (new) sequence seem sensible? Is it just doing what compression does?

Bonus question... would you recommend noise reduction occur at the end (where it is above) or elsewhere in my chain?

Thanks =).

PS: Using Audacity. The rest of the settings for the Effects above are pretty much defaults.