I was editing audio recorded from cassette.When I wanted to normalize the volume,spikes in the tracks (e.g. a trumpet note) would prevent the volume from rising.It's easy enough to edit a few spikes but if there are many it's endless.Some programs allow you to limit the gain when ripping or burning a cd,but I found no editors that do so.Most,like MP3gain,limit the gain for the whole track.Do you know an editor that limits the gain yet still normalizes the rest of the track?
hoenslty man, I really would stick away from normalizing. It realizes changes the harmonic structure of a audio piece, and the result will not sound the way it was intended. Some types of music, espeically classical, are supposed to be very soft at some points and very loud at others....
Quite right djscoop,not a good idea to use "gain limiting".
Even very small use of it removes the "richness" of the track.
Slightly more results in unpleasant and considerable up and
down variation in vocals and other acoustics.However,carefull
use of very slight amounts is usefull if you have old tapes
with certain instruments,vocals,etc. wich come out too loud.
While looking for free gain limiting programs,I found they
were hard to find.I noticed however that there were many "VST"
gain limiting plugins and they were also much smaller in size
than the programs wich were trialware mostly.These "VST"
plugins work in many programs,including Nero Wave Editor.You
must restart Nero Wave Editor after installing them.I tested a
few and learned they are also called "compressors".I then used
Blaze Media Editor to evaluate the results and saw it had it's
own "compressor".I found this one quite adequate for me.
I will write some more about thes compressors soon.
