Re: Please can anybody advise me?

2010-12-16 Thread Danny Miles
Hi Colin. I don't know how much you use GoldWave and how much you know about it, but I'm guessing quite a lot based on your in-depth attention to audio. I haven't listened to the files, but wonder whether something like GoldWave's Maximize Volume might make the volume levels a bit more constant.

Re: Please can anybody advise me?

2010-12-16 Thread Colin r . Howard
Greetings, On the GoldWave4TheBlind list, Steve Nutt suggested I use Levelator, I have this but having played with auto gain, volume maximization and the like, could not having tried it on about a minute's worth of music into speech into music, could not resolve a decent sound. Have a listen to

Re: Please can anybody advise me?

2010-12-16 Thread Colin r . Howard
Greetings, I have now tried Levelator on the rock'n'roll program and it comes up with an error saying cannot open the file. Nothing else shows why. From Colin Howard, who lives near Southampton in Southern England and though down here, Christmas may be Green in terms of a respite from the

Re: Please can anybody advise me?

2010-12-16 Thread Colin r . Howard
Greetings, I have received a post advising Levelator only works on .wav files, so will convert to .wav and give it a go. From Colin Howard, who lives near Southampton in Southern England and though down here, Christmas may be Green in terms of a respite from the cold weather, won't be Green

Re: Please can anybody advise me?

2010-12-16 Thread Colin r . Howard
Greetings, I have now used the Levelator program, having first tried with an .mp3 file and discovering from another group it needs .wav, the result is acceptable, at least the speech volume is much better without boosting the background noise too much. From Colin Howard, who lives near

Please can anybody advise me?

2010-12-15 Thread Colin r . Howard
Greetings, In the UK, we have community radio stations and in my area, there is one called Angel radio, based on the Isle of wight just off the south coast. The station plays music directed towards whom they term the more mature listener, basically, very little released beyond the date of 1960,