mudshark Posted November 10, 2004 Report Share Posted November 10, 2004 Does anyone know of a method or good freeware package that will kick up the volume (i.e. normalization) of .WAV files? I know I could convert them to .MP3 and use MP3Gain - but I was wondering if there was a way to do it to the .WAV files? I wish Sonic Stage had the ability to normalize selective inputs. When ripping a series of CD's - there are certain CD's that are just produced at an overall lower volume... thanks in advance! mudshark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A440 Posted November 10, 2004 Report Share Posted November 10, 2004 Good old free Audacity will Normalize, look under Effects. http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ksandbergfl Posted November 10, 2004 Report Share Posted November 10, 2004 Does anyone know of a method or good freeware package that will kick up the volume (i.e. normalization) of .WAV files? mudsharkI recently discovered WavePad. It's pretty good for a free app. I've sent emails to the authors too, and they've responded... nice to know that someone is listening to you. You have all the usual audio functions (including Normalize), and you can save to MP3 (via Lame, which they politely include). Once they add the ability to automatically split/save the incoming audio stream into separate WAV's when "silence" is detected (needed when one is recording old vinyl LP's and wants each song saved separately), then WavePad will probably become my main audio tool. http://nch.com.au/wavepad/index.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcnet Posted November 10, 2004 Report Share Posted November 10, 2004 Since I transfer tracks from lots of different CD's to a single MD (4.5 hours of LP2 now with HI-MD on a 74 minute disc) I too would like a good normalizer. However, all these tracks can vary in volume while all of them are at 100% peak already. Anyone know of a good normalizer that uses the loudness of the track instead of the PCM peaks? It would be nice to just select a bunch of .wav/mp3/whatever files and say "Normalise to -14 db" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Latexxx Posted November 10, 2004 Report Share Posted November 10, 2004 foobar2000. Add replaygain info to files and set its diskwriter to use replaygain info. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcnet Posted November 11, 2004 Report Share Posted November 11, 2004 I got 70 random tracks from various sources (CD, mp3's,oggs). I Stuck them all into a foobar2000 play list and did a "replaygain all as single album" scan on them. I then enabled replaygain in the diskwriting preferences and wrote all the tracks as .wav files into a seperate folder. I then stuck these .wav files into SonicStage to transfer to MD 2 problems: 1) The tracks are now all quieter than normal. I think I need to add "volume" to the DSP list to get around this. 2) The tracks still vary in volume! I listen to the first track (Atari Teenage Riot --- Redefine the enemy '97) and the next track (Audioslave --- Exploder) and I still need to adjust the volume manually to acheive a constant listening volume level Is there anything better out there? Something that I can simply pick a DB level to normalise to, select a bunch of .wav files and say "go". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Latexxx Posted November 11, 2004 Report Share Posted November 11, 2004 Set replaygain's mode to 'track' (prefernces - playback). Try also to adjust preamp of files with rg info. I don't know if this method works woth fileconverter but it works when playing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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