M.Linc Posted August 22, 2006 Report Share Posted August 22, 2006 I have over 2400 tracks in SonicStage now, but they're all over the map in terms of volume level. Older CDs, especially, seem to have been recorded at quite low levels; perhaps the recording engineers were erring on the side of caution with the then-new digital medium. So the Dynamic Normalization capability of the MZ-RH1 is very interesting to me. But I don't know if it works well or is better left off. If DN doesn't work well, then I can just as well save my money and carefully choose similarly-loud tracks to transfer to MDs using my MZ-N707.Has anyone actually downloaded tracks with widely-different volume levels to a single MD and played them on the RH1 using Dynamic Normalization? If so, what are your impressions?On a similar note: If I were to unpack my old MD deck and record tracks from CD so that each is just short of oversaturation, should they all sound similarly loud, or are there other dynamics involved which I'm unaware of? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qwakrz Posted August 22, 2006 Report Share Posted August 22, 2006 The volume level on modern discs is awfull.In the old days before CD became the only medium to use the master tapes were made at the reference 0 level (cd allowed for upto +6 db of level for peaks). Modern music pushed the level upto the +6db limit and now they have started to use compression on music to make it sound "Louder" but it just makes it sound more flat in the process. Compression reduces the volume in the peak and increases it everywhere else to make the other sounds even louder. This has the effect to make drums etc sound dull and cause any other sound when a drum is hit go quiet. This introduces distortion in the original waveform.If you take an old disc and use an old MD to re-record it it will still sound quieter then modern music because of the use of compression to distort the sound and make it louder.As for how good the RH1 is, someone with one will have to answer that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raintheory Posted August 22, 2006 Report Share Posted August 22, 2006 (edited) Keep in mind the dynamic normalization is for playback only... So it won't affect discs you record with the RH1 for playback on legacy units. Edited August 22, 2006 by raintheory Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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