pfarrell Wrote: > On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 06:11 -0700, oiler1fan wrote: > > Thanks for the input - I now understand a lot more for the reasons, > but > > not enough to work your solution. How do I "normalize the wav files > to > > peak at 100%" > > You have to use a suitable audio wavefile editor. > Syntrillium CoolEdit was great and I still use it for that. > They sold the product line to Adobe and they renamed it Audition > Audition is of course rather expensive (about $300). It's a shame that Adobe buried the much more affordable CoolEdit 2000 when they acquired Syntrillium's IPR.
A fairly nice (and free) audio editor that will be able to do the normalisation for you is Audacity. > > These editors also typically have compressors, which > allow you to reduce dymanic range so that older tunes > can sound like more recent ones. However, many > folks in the recording and mastering space > think modern CDs are over compressed so that all > life is squeezed out of them. So listen > and be sure you like the results. I'm at work right now so don't have it to hand, but I'm pretty sure Audacity also has a compressor if you want to play around using free tools. I will reinforce what Pat says about compression - modern CDs (at least pop & rock ones) are hypercompressed so much these days that they have virtually no sense of dynamics at all. If you compress your LP recordings similarly, they will end up sounding just as bad. -- cliveb _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
