[kj] O/T Techology help

[Robert Cashour]

on 7/7/06 3:02 PM, Papa Lazarou at circuit_bender at yahoo.com wrote:

I am not sure you can in Roxio, unless there is something in the sound
editor.. There is an equal loudness function in sonic, but i'll go with what
was earlier said, and suggest normalizing the tracks in a wave editor first.

You can normalize a track all you want, but you may still have trouble
matching levels so it sounds equally loud to your ears. It's all about two
things a) production and b) mastering

That's why you're never going to get an early KJ recording to sound as
'loud' as KJ03', for example, without the right tools, and even then it may
not match. One thing I do with older tracks off of casette (for example) in
Logic is to put them through a battery of plug-ins after I normalize. I
usually insert a compressor at around 4:1 ratio, an exciter (or two) to
enhance low-end and high frequencies, and the master seven-channel eq to
push some frequencies louder.

After I get that sounding good, I insert the Master Compressor, the Adaptive
Limiter, and maybe that second exciter on the output channels. I then bounce
it to a .wav file for use in iTunes. I've gotten stuff to sound drastically
different and much better/louder after using these techniques.
Unfortunately, this equipment isn't affordable for everyone, and not
everyone is a sound engineer like I am either.

Brian Whitehead <bawhitehead at gmail.com> wrote:
  
Seeing as its quite I'll get this in now.
 
Totally off topic
 
I seem to remember this being asked some time ago.
 

 
When I'm making a compilation CD on the PC (I use Roxio) with different CDs
having different levels, one track is very lound and the next quiet in
comparison.
 
How do I level them out?
 

 

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