Hi all,
A family member has finished recording an audiobook for ACX, using a home studio set up for him by professional audio engineer. Most of the chapters comply with ACX requirements, but a few need adjustment. In particular, he needs to increase the RMS level of the chapter without unduly increasing the peak levels. (He used a limiter while recording in Studio One, and the limiter was set to keep the peak below a certain level; mostly that worked, but in a few cases not.) He can come close to doing this, using Izotope RX 7's leveler, but when he gets RMS to the proper level, the peak level is a little too high -- -0.5 db, say, which is slightly higher than ACX requires. Is there more he can do to adjust the peaks, short of re-recording entire chapters?
I did some audio editing years ago, and I dimly recall directly editing peaks to "quiet" them down -- just scrunching the peaky part of the waveform with my mouse. But I was using Sonar, which I'm not sure even exists any more. Any suggestions on what he can do?
A family member has finished recording an audiobook for ACX, using a home studio set up for him by professional audio engineer. Most of the chapters comply with ACX requirements, but a few need adjustment. In particular, he needs to increase the RMS level of the chapter without unduly increasing the peak levels. (He used a limiter while recording in Studio One, and the limiter was set to keep the peak below a certain level; mostly that worked, but in a few cases not.) He can come close to doing this, using Izotope RX 7's leveler, but when he gets RMS to the proper level, the peak level is a little too high -- -0.5 db, say, which is slightly higher than ACX requires. Is there more he can do to adjust the peaks, short of re-recording entire chapters?
I did some audio editing years ago, and I dimly recall directly editing peaks to "quiet" them down -- just scrunching the peaky part of the waveform with my mouse. But I was using Sonar, which I'm not sure even exists any more. Any suggestions on what he can do?