I use EasyEffects constantly (and have since it was called PulseEffects) to compress and limit the dynamic range of what comes out my speakers.
So much content is made with low voices and incredibly loud effects, and if I turn it up to where I can understand the speech, everything else just blasts me. But with a compressor and limiter in the chain, I can turn it up as much as I need, and the loud moments are simply not that loud.
Lack of this capability on my phone is the main reason I don't consume videos or streams there -- the audio engineering is just beyond terrible. For the moment, desktop is the only place I have the tools to fix it, so desktop is where I listen.
So much content is made with low voices and incredibly loud effects, and if I turn it up to where I can understand the speech, everything else just blasts me. But with a compressor and limiter in the chain, I can turn it up as much as I need, and the loud moments are simply not that loud.
Lack of this capability on my phone is the main reason I don't consume videos or streams there -- the audio engineering is just beyond terrible. For the moment, desktop is the only place I have the tools to fix it, so desktop is where I listen.