TimothyB;630751 Wrote: > Hi Phil - yes, I meant for how Smart Gain selects one vs. the other. > > So the first track will have track gain, and the second will have album > gain? That sounds like it would imply that if I simply play an album, > the first track will have track gain and the rest will have album gain. > It also sounds like a shuffled album will have album gain. > > --- T
Speaking as someone who NEVER shuffles an album, it would make no sense to use track gain on a shuffled album!!!! If I was listening to a shuffled album I'd want album gain applied. There's a very good reason for this; on albums where the relative level of tracks is part of the artistic merit/construct of the album, nobody should be shuffling it! On albums where shuffle has some kind of music validity (e.g. compilations) the they should already be engineered with close track levels anyway... Without devoting an evening to creating some test albums to try out all the permutatioins, all I can say is that I have never been surprised or disappointed by sudden level changes when using smartgain on random playlists which may or may not contain adjacent tracks from the same album. -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - Audiolense 3.3/2.0+INGUZ DRC - MF M1 DAC - Linn 5103 - full Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Pekin Tuner, Townsend Supertweeters, Blue Jeans Belden Digital,Kimber 8TC Speaker & Chord Signature Plus Interconnect cables Stax4070+SRM7/II phones Kitchen Boom, Outdoors: SB Radio, Harmony One remote for everything. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87061 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
