Subject:Help!!! Need solution to a basic question in BATCH CONVERTER
Posted by: djcrash
Date:3/26/2002 9:41:19 PM
I am a newbie.. this is my first post.. Here is what i am trying to accomplish: I subscribe to a monthly CD promo service. I want to convert the CD's to MP3 for my personal use to stream over the web. Sounds easy right.. ? I own SForge 5 and I recently bought Batch converter to automate this process. I convert the CD to WAV's. Here's where I need help.. The Cd's are highly compressed radio promos. I notice each year the discs are mastered hotter and hotter with less dynamics. The resulting wav's need to be tweaked. I want to remove the low end below 20HZ and then normalize to -16 DB RMS. There is no volume reduction or boost in Batch Converter; only normalize, wave hammer and amplitude modulation. In order to remove frequencies on the low end, I need some headroom first. I was using the Normailze to -16DB Peak function, but a Sound forge tech told me I was boosting the low end by doing that (he's right, I can hear that in my final product). I need another way to lower the output of the WAV files without adding any "effects". I just want to reduce the overall volume so I can then apply my low end freq. cut, then normalize to -16 DB RMS and then convert to VBR 80 MP3. Any ideas?? |
Subject:RE: Help!!! Need solution to a basic question in BATCH CONVERTER
Reply by: Erik_Nygaard
Date:3/27/2002 4:15:28 AM
I believe you can use any/most DX-plugins in the Batch Converter, so it really is a question of finding the right ones.There are probably some expander plugins available wich should do the job along with a decent equalizer (cut, do not boost). That longwinded who-can-compress-everything-to-death competition got to stop :-) There are a bunch of really good articles about compression etc on http://www.studiocovers.com/articles.htm |