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jheath
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The way I usually deal with audience applause is to use clip gain in Pro Tools. I can select the applause portion, hit the b key and it becomes its own clip with its own clip gain. After I adjust the gain, I can use cross fades and adjust until it sounds natural. I can also slide the fades earlier or later in the timeline which help with getting a natural sound. Usually I can make lowered applause edits completely inaudible.
I often cannot get this to sound natural. Applause doesn't always start quickly, and when it starts slowly the effect of reducing gain is either an audible fade out of ambience, or if the fade is placed later, an audible reduction from the first claps to the full applause.
With the limiter approach I can completely avoid these effects. Naturally the applause itself loses some of its "depth" or "dimension", but I really don't mind that...