MrSinatra;379278 Wrote: > phil, > > take any multi disc album... any one you like... and lets say for > this hypothetical example each disc has 20 tracks on it. > > if i can distinguish between the discs, which i can, via tags or folder > location or whatever, then when i run RG analysis, i get one RG album > value for one disc, and a second, DIFFERENT value for the second disc. > > in both situations, the value will reflect an avg of the various tracks > to the reference RG standard level. (89db i think) i will get a > better, more accurate, more meaningful value PER DISC than PER ALBUM. > > in your way you will get a value that must avg across TWO discs (40 > tracks) and therefore is not as accurate for either disc as a per disc > value (20 tracks) would be. > > imagine if you had a 10 disc album, which is kinda what moonbase was > saying... you could have a LOT of variance disc to disc that you are > trying to compensate for with one single RG value for all discs. > > i think my way is better, and gives a better result for listening to > multidisc albums. This approach doesn't make sense at all. If your way was better, wouldn't it even be more better to view each track as an album because you will get an even more accurate and meaningful value and even less variance? ;-)
What you want to achieve when you calculate and use album gain is the preservation of differences between individual tracks on one album. You want to hear the differences between tracks just as they were on the original recording. If your album has more than one disc and can be considered one continuous piece of work (e.g. live recording, single recording session, etc.) you should apply album gain for the whole album. It would be plain silly to calculate gain per disc. In most cases it is not unnecessary to apply album gain per disc because the whole album was already level-matched in the production process. There won't be any unwanted differences between disc 1 and 2. By applying album gain per disc you introduce a difference in volume level between the discs that was not there in the first place. There is no reason why disc 2 should be played back at a lower overall volume than disc 1 only because it contains more "loud" tracks. This is especially true for compilation albums. -s. -- slimpy ------------------------------------------------------------------------ slimpy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1524 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57543 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
