Another free program that will normalize wav files is Audiograbber
<www.audiograbber.com> - a CD ripper. If the wav files have already
been ripped to your hard drive, just select 'em all and click the button.
Robert
cliveb wrote:
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.
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