Synkrotron
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Yep, I know... there is a Sound Forge specific forum here but have you been in there recently? Not much going on.
And my question is more about Mastering really... although I say that in the amateur sense cos I ain't no mastering engineer (as you know).
And try to bare with me... and I'll try to give you as much background as I can.
So, in the past, I have used Sound Forge (can't remember the versions but probably 2 or 3 so it was quite early stuff), to "master" my stereo wav files. And by master I only mean trim the tracks slightly if needed, fade out any noise at the beginning and end of the tracks (so that it wasn't so obvious) and perhaps minor EQ and compression.
In a recent fit of madness I've been upgrading my software and you've probably heard me mentioning Sonar 5. As part of that process I bought Sound Forge Audio Studio and to be honest I didn't really do my homework properly and I'm also a little more educated, believe it or not, than I was three months ago. Only the other day, I exported one of my Sonar projects to a 24 bit stereo WAV with a view to attempted, as described above, some simple mastering. I wondered why the file would not open, no errors, SFAS just ignored the fact that I was trying to open this file. So, a little late in the day I decided to dig into the specs of SFAS and was a little disappointed that it only opens 16 bit, 44.1Khz files... guess I got my just deserves and at the end of the day you only get what you pay for.
So, now to the crux of my query...
Sound Forge 8 WILL open and edit 24 bit files right up the spectrum so I could upgrade from SFAS to SF8 for around another $230. But before I do that I would like some opinions, expert or otherwise, on whether this is the right thing to do or whether I'd be better off saving up and getting something better and ditching SFAS altogether.
Bare in mind that I am not, nor probably never will be a mastering engineer and I will only be using the software to try some minor tweaking. It looks to me that SF8 will certainly allow me to do that and it will also let me use plugins I already have (like the Sonitus stuff I use in Sonar for instance).
I know that there is one other option and would not take any more of my hard earned cash and that is to master and edit within Sonar itself but something nagging at me and saying that I should really be taking my finished mixed stereo 24 bit files outside of Sonar... don't know why... it's just a hunch. Sonar, IMO, is just a little bit too unwieldy to use for tweaking stereo files.
Any thoughts chaps? Apart from the obvious groans of "oh no... not again".
thanks
andy
And my question is more about Mastering really... although I say that in the amateur sense cos I ain't no mastering engineer (as you know).
And try to bare with me... and I'll try to give you as much background as I can.
So, in the past, I have used Sound Forge (can't remember the versions but probably 2 or 3 so it was quite early stuff), to "master" my stereo wav files. And by master I only mean trim the tracks slightly if needed, fade out any noise at the beginning and end of the tracks (so that it wasn't so obvious) and perhaps minor EQ and compression.
In a recent fit of madness I've been upgrading my software and you've probably heard me mentioning Sonar 5. As part of that process I bought Sound Forge Audio Studio and to be honest I didn't really do my homework properly and I'm also a little more educated, believe it or not, than I was three months ago. Only the other day, I exported one of my Sonar projects to a 24 bit stereo WAV with a view to attempted, as described above, some simple mastering. I wondered why the file would not open, no errors, SFAS just ignored the fact that I was trying to open this file. So, a little late in the day I decided to dig into the specs of SFAS and was a little disappointed that it only opens 16 bit, 44.1Khz files... guess I got my just deserves and at the end of the day you only get what you pay for.
So, now to the crux of my query...
Sound Forge 8 WILL open and edit 24 bit files right up the spectrum so I could upgrade from SFAS to SF8 for around another $230. But before I do that I would like some opinions, expert or otherwise, on whether this is the right thing to do or whether I'd be better off saving up and getting something better and ditching SFAS altogether.
Bare in mind that I am not, nor probably never will be a mastering engineer and I will only be using the software to try some minor tweaking. It looks to me that SF8 will certainly allow me to do that and it will also let me use plugins I already have (like the Sonitus stuff I use in Sonar for instance).
I know that there is one other option and would not take any more of my hard earned cash and that is to master and edit within Sonar itself but something nagging at me and saying that I should really be taking my finished mixed stereo 24 bit files outside of Sonar... don't know why... it's just a hunch. Sonar, IMO, is just a little bit too unwieldy to use for tweaking stereo files.
Any thoughts chaps? Apart from the obvious groans of "oh no... not again".
thanks
andy