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Subject:mastering wav's Posted by: domehitz Date:2/4/2000 6:26:00 PM wondering if anyone has some advice for enhancing the quality of output.... the levels sound fine when i'm playing my session in cool edit, but when i burn the CD and put it in my car stereo, the bass is too weak and i have to turn up the volume. are there better ways of nomalizing the final mix down? i've been doing everything at 98.5%
Subject:Re: mastering wav's Reply by: Kelly_S Date:2/7/2000 6:33:00 PM Hello. One suggestion is to normalize while processing EQ or Dynamic Compression. All of our EQ and Compression (Dynamics) processes also have a Gain slider. If you process a sample section of the loudest part of your file and see how much room you have left before reaching 0dB, you can use the Gain slider in that process to "normalize" at the same time. Highlight what you know to be the loudest section or the area that contains the loudest peak. The easiest methods of finding the location of the highest peak in the file are: Use Tools\|Statistics, which will report Maximum sample position. Use Tools\|Find, and under Name choose "Find largest peak" (maximum value). That will drop the cursor at the position of the loudest peak. Highlight a section to work on which contains this loudest peak. Have the Play meters visible so that you can monitor how much headroom you have before clipping when you generate Previews. When Previewing a Dynamics setting and the meters show -3.2 dB as the highest level, you can then raise Output Gain to +3.2 dB in the Dynamics dialog window, and it will effectively Normalize it by that amount at the same time the Dynamics processing is performed. After you have settled on parameters for Dynamics and your Preview shows 0.0 dB as the peak level (now that you have raised the Output Gain), click on the Selection button and under Selection choose "Select all data." Then when you click OK, it will process the entire file and not only the highlighted area you were using for your Preview. After you are done, you can go to Tools\|Find, and under Name choose "Clipping" to see if levels went into the red anywhere. It is a good idea to normalize at the same time you are processing EQ or Dynamic Compression because the fewer times you have to run any process, the better it will sound, and there will be less possibility of causing digital artifacts. Thanks! jim bob wrote: >>wondering if anyone has some advice for enhancing the >>quality of output.... the levels sound fine when i'm playing >>my session in cool edit, but when i burn the CD and put it >>in my car stereo, the bass is too weak and i have to turn up >>the volume. >> >>are there better ways of nomalizing the final mix down? >>i've been doing everything at 98.5% >> >>

Hello.
One suggestion is to normalize while processing EQ or Dynamic
Compression. All of our EQ and Compression (Dynamics) processes also
have a Gain slider. If you process a sample section of the loudest
part of your file and see how much room you have left before reaching
0dB, you can use the Gain slider in that process to "normalize" at
the same time.
Highlight what you know to be the loudest section or the area that
contains the loudest peak. The easiest methods of finding the
location of the highest peak in the file are:

Use Tools|Statistics, which will report Maximum sample position.

Use Tools|Find, and under Name choose "Find largest peak" (maximum
value). That will drop the cursor at the position of the loudest
peak.
Highlight a section to work on which contains this loudest peak. Have
the Play meters visible so that you can monitor how much headroom you
have before clipping when you generate Previews. When Previewing a
Dynamics setting and the meters show -3.2 dB as the highest level,
you can then raise Output Gain to +3.2 dB in the Dynamics dialog
window, and it will effectively Normalize it by that amount at the
same time the Dynamics processing is performed. After you have
settled on parameters for Dynamics and your Preview shows 0.0 dB as
the peak level (now that you have raised the Output Gain), click on
the Selection button and under Selection choose "Select all data."
Then when you click OK, it will process the entire file and not only
the highlighted area you were using for your Preview. After you are
done, you can go to Tools|Find, and under Name choose "Clipping" to
see if levels went into the red anywhere.

It is a good idea to normalize at the same time you are processing EQ
or Dynamic Compression because the fewer times you have to run any
process, the better it will sound, and there will be less possibility
of causing digital artifacts.

Thanks!

jim bob wrote:
>>wondering if anyone has some advice for enhancing the
>>quality of output.... the levels sound fine when i'm playing
>>my session in cool edit, but when i burn the CD and put it
>>in my car stereo, the bass is too weak and i have to turn up
>>the volume.
>>
>>are there better ways of nomalizing the final mix down?
>>i've been doing everything at 98.5%
>>
>>