I have noticed that some of my tracks are louder than others.
I remember in one post dirknerkle mentioned that one of his tasks before launching a show is balancing the audio levels.
Can anyone point me to something that gives a description of how to do this? I have GoldWave as an audio editor.
You can accomplish that with Audacity, but a program called MP3GAIN is probably a lot easier to do. It allows evaluating many MP3s simultaneously and boosting/cutting each as is appropriate to reach a certain audio saturation level. It's a free download -- google it and I'm sure you'll find it.
WIZARD! ;) That is pure magic! Very cool, thanks. I will be dropping the adjusted tracks onto the show computer tomorrow.
Great question, always cringe when one song is so much louder than the others, so I keep the speaker volume down which causes almost zero music to be heard for the rest of the songs.
Good stuff, will download and get this fixed!
Just dropped the tracks on the show computer, fired it up and let the whole show play (daylight right now) - the audio is awesome!
I'm using a speaker this year - so loud and soft tracks were a problem - now they all sound the same level. Serious coolness!
I use both Audacity and MP3Gain. MP3Gain is very simple. Audacity has got to be one of the best audio software tools ever created!!!
Another plus of MP3Gain is that it just puts a "gain" value in the ID3 tag, it doesn't actually re-encode the song like lots of "normalization" which completely (and nonreversibly) changes the actual MP3 file.
Adobe Audition is really nice too - it used to be called CoolEdit before being gobbled up.
I have been using MP3Gain for years, simple effective and FREE.