Compression is the perfect tool for this job lowering the singing when he is right into the mike and raising it when the mike is far away.Threshold: When your signal rises above a preset point the compressor begins to work. When the signal goes below this point the compressor stops working. The compressor only compresses when the signal goes above this preset point. The rest of the time it just sits there doing nothing.

This only works when your signal goes above the threshold setting. If you are below this setting the compressor will just sit there.The attack setting controls how fast the compressor starts working when the signal goes above the threshold.Compression is one the most misused tools in your recording tool kit. Most software compressors have great presets. I almost always start at one of the presets and adjust slowly and listen the whole time to what the changes are doing to the sound of the audio.Less is better when it comes to compression Avoid changing those settings too much. Get a handle on compression and your audio files will sound more professional than they ever have.