rinkydinkron Posted July 28, 2007 Share Posted July 28, 2007 Is there any software available to help you equalize levels on backing tracks?All the volume levels are totally different on our mini discs and it is a total pain in the but as I have to constantly adjust the levels from track to track when we are gigging. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew C Posted July 28, 2007 Share Posted July 28, 2007 Adobe Audition will do it, but it costs. Audacity might and it is free. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trunker Posted July 28, 2007 Share Posted July 28, 2007 If you buy the full version of Real-Player off the internet, I am sure that you can burn off a disc and make 'levels the same across the disc'. I would check it out. Although this would mean putting all your music onto the computer and burining them off again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beware Posted July 28, 2007 Share Posted July 28, 2007 http://www.minidisc.org/faq_sec_5.html#scalefactor although I don't know which MD players support this. EDIT: a quick google shows the MDSJE480 as having Scale Factor Edit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Posted July 28, 2007 Share Posted July 28, 2007 Most audio recording packages and CD burning tools will have a "normalize all audio files" button. David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musht Posted July 28, 2007 Share Posted July 28, 2007 I think of equalise to mean adjusting frequency bands what you're after is normalise which Audacity will do: http://www.videohelp.com/forum/archive/equ...ty-t328441.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rinkydinkron Posted July 28, 2007 Author Share Posted July 28, 2007 Many thanks guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamesperrett Posted July 30, 2007 Share Posted July 30, 2007 Is there any software available to help you equalize levels on backing tracks?All the volume levels are totally different on our mini discs and it is a total pain in the but as I have to constantly adjust the levels from track to track when we are gigging. There is nothing that will do it automatically quite as well as someone just listening and adjusting the gain manually. Normalising can't differentiate between tracks that have already been heavily limited and tracks that have a wide dynamic range. Compression or limiting will help tame the dynamic range if it is too wide but shouldn't be used if it isn't needed. The other problem is that the tracks on MD are already data compressed so the sound will be degraded slightly if you send them to a computer to match the levels so the scale factor adjustment looks like a good idea in this case. Can you get hold of the original source material? Cheers James. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niall Posted July 30, 2007 Share Posted July 30, 2007 If you buy the full version of Real-Player off the internet, I am sure that you can burn off a disc and make 'levels the same across the disc'. I would check it out. Although this would mean putting all your music onto the computer and burining them off again. ITunes does this and it's free! It determines song volumes and can be set to play back at the same level, it can then also use this information to burn CDs at the same level. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryson Posted July 30, 2007 Share Posted July 30, 2007 None of them work that brilliantly, primarily because of the varying levels of compression (audio, not data) used in producing the records. All the computers can do is either compare peak levels or average levels and decide based on that - and neither approach is that good. This is the type of job that Humans still do better than software. (For now!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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