Stereo Tool

Hi there,
I'm working with the old multiband compressor within my Stereo Tool preset to have a, yes how to say, flow in the music. It's hard to explain, but so far it sounds much more pleasant than using the "new" or "normal" multiband compressor (MB1). Only unfortunately, especially with the "quieter" songs, a very annoying and unbearable crackling is noticeable.

Here are 2 examples: With Old Multiband Compressor

https://workupload.com/archive/Ep72hmYe

So let's put it this way: A certain crackling in muffled music pieces is already present from the song. But the AGC and the Old MB pulls this, I think, again in the height. Just wondering how other radio stations(on the web) have solved this. Maybe someone can give me some good advice on this problem.

MfG
Florian

I am not an audio pro by any stretch of the imagination, so a huge YMMV here....

My initial thought is maybe turn on the noise gate if not already and see how far you have to push the total noise level setting to clean up the distortion, then once the distortion diminishes perhaps back down the total level and instead tweak the per band settings to your desired level.