Amplification Of Multiple Tracks At Once?

[Jeff DLB]

I recorded our basement jam session the other day. Thanks to the advice on this forum, I was able to get a faithful rendition of what we played without overloading by the drums or bass. I used SP-BMC3 mics -> radio shack attenuator -> MZ-RH10 minidisc mic in.

I set the levels conservatively, and as a result got rather low amplitudes throughout.

The good news is that using Audacity (outrageously great free! software) I can quickly boost the levels, and there is no noise that I can discern.

The bad news is that I must do that for each track individually, and for each channel because one mic was getting lower volume.

My two questions are:

(1) is there a shortcut way in Audacity to have Effect: Amplify normalize each channel independently? I am splitting the stereo tracks, boosting each one, and then recombining.

(2) Is there a program that would take a bunch of tracks and normalize each one, without me having to individually edit each song?

Thanks for any info,

Jeff DLB

[ozpeter]

(2) - Adobe Audition has a Group Waveform Normalise function which attempts to make a set of tracks (files) soundequally loud, taking into account the characteristics of the human ear. You can specify whether you are prepared for the tracks with already high level should have a limiting effect applied to them or whether the original dynamics should be left alone, and if necessary, high-level tracks to be reduced in level to enable the quieter ones to subjectively sound louder in comparison. It takes a bit of experimentation with test copy files to get the measure of it. You can download a trial from the Adobe site.