Normalize Gain??, How do I get all tracks the same volume? Options

[FUNKSTICK]

Okay,

Now some of you are probably saying.. duh.. its simple.. get this...! Get what?

I tried to do it in Jam 6. It has a normalize function that...

Wait... allow me to tell you what I'm doing. A friend of mine was doing a show. She was using her audio cd (aiff) of her music and some karaoke tracks. The levels were all over the place. One hot, one not, one warm, blah blah.

The day before her show.. (can you believe this) she gives me the cd and says ... can you fix this? I need them all to be the same level. I said .. um..er.. uh... sure. Hopped on Jam 6 and promptly failed to get it right. Beside the fact that the levels didn't seem to be even from one song to the next, someone actually said the highs were also compressed (read; bad). She ended up putting the songs on minidisc and the show went poorly.

Now somebody else is asking me to boost their track, obviously unaware that it didn't work the last time, and here I am...asking you.. the all knowing macmusic forum for answers.

What need I do, use, fix and/or correct? Help help help er.. um .. help please.

[gdoubleyou]

When i observed a Mastering Engineer, put the finishing touches on a product from a client.

Getting consistant volumes between songs,took the most time.
He basically went back and forth between songs doing slight gain adjustments, until he was happy.

I never normalize, in my opinion it kills your dynamics, especially if you have some delicate parts of your song.



This post has been edited by gdoubleyou: Sat 29 Apr 2006, 03:25

[DANO10]

Hey FUNSTICK:

Of course, I must agree with gdoubleyou. As an old mastering engineer, the hardest thing for me was to get the levels between tracks right. However, being under pressure FUNSTICK, did you use the "normalize selection" under the "disc" menue in JAM 6? This will do a rough job of equalizing levels between tracks and will not affect the sound. Hope this helps.

DANO10