jeddeth Posted May 6, 2006 Report Share Posted May 6, 2006 Please help me out here, so I can get an amazing show to my friends!I taped a concert on hd minidisc. I'm going to offload it in sonicstage to my computer tonight. I have to raise some of the levels because I recorded it really low to try and prevent distortion as much as possible. The recording came out really good, but it's way too quiet.What is the best software for tweaking the levels?Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparky191 Posted May 6, 2006 Report Share Posted May 6, 2006 If its going to be MP3 I would say MP3Gain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeddeth Posted May 6, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 6, 2006 is that the same as soundforge? if different, is it better? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenmachine Posted May 6, 2006 Report Share Posted May 6, 2006 If you don't have an audio editor yet, you might want to try Audacity:http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparky191 Posted May 6, 2006 Report Share Posted May 6, 2006 is that the same as soundforge? if different, is it better?Its not an editor ir just adjust the gain on MP3's to make them all the same, or louder/quieter. Its only for MP3's obviously. You run it across all your MP3's so that the volume doesn't jump up and down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A440 Posted May 7, 2006 Report Share Posted May 7, 2006 If you have Soundforge, that's a professional editing program that will certainly do what you need. It's probably called Normalize.Audacity, which is free, also has Normalize (and Amplify if you want to choose your own level of amplification). Upload, convert to .wav, open the file with Audacity, highlight the entire track and look under Effect for Normalize. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timonoj Posted May 16, 2006 Report Share Posted May 16, 2006 A440 is right...Any audio editing program has this easy option: Audio normalization. U pick that one, choose 100% if it asks something, and there u go, the song sounding at full volume! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dex Otaku Posted May 16, 2006 Report Share Posted May 16, 2006 RE: Normalisation - this is sort of what you want, but not exactly.Normalisation usually [with most software] refers to PEAK normalisation, which is -not- what you want. Sound Forge has an option for RMS normalisation as well [most other programs either lack this completely or call it something else] which -is- what you want. Peak normalisation just sets whatever the peak level in the file you hand it is to whatever new level you specify. An example - if the peak level of a particular live recording is -10dBfs, and you tell it to normalise to -0.2dBfs, the software just raises the volume of the entire track by 9.8dB. RMS normalisation actually analyses the file and figures out what it's peak RMS value is [like average volume]; it then adjusts the volume of the entire file either up or down using that RMS value as the reference [average rather than peak volume]. RMS normalisation also usually includes an option to apply dynamic compression should the peak volume after initial processing exceed 0dBfs; this is basically an implementation of bit-pushing.Anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timonoj Posted May 16, 2006 Report Share Posted May 16, 2006 You never go to sleep without learning a new thing...Thanks, dex! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avrin Posted May 16, 2006 Report Share Posted May 16, 2006 (edited) If you care about real continuity:Adobe Audition. Its "File->Open Append" really saves lives. And you can take care of skips between MP3s and other unfortunate format files. Edited May 16, 2006 by Avrin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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