Keeping levels constant...

[pdlstl]

I'm using SONAR 2.2 and recorded 12 songs yesterday for a small bluegrass group.

What I'm wanting to know is how do I ensure that all 12 songs have the same volume level when burned to a CD?

Is there software which I can run the songs through that will give me a visual representation of the volume of the finished tracks?

How do you folks do this?

I hope I've asked this correctly.

Thanks,

Earl

 

[dachay2tnr]

Generally that is done in the mastering phase. However, you really don't want all 12 songs at the same volume. What you want if for them to transition well from one song to the next.

If the end goal is commercial sales, you might want to consider having it mastered professionally. If you don't require that level of quality, you can try it yourself.

Personally I use a program called Wavelab for this. Another pretty good one is Sound Forge.

 

[pdlstl]

Thanks!

I have Ozone as well. Can I use this to achieve the desired results?

Earl

 

[dachay2tnr]

Thanks!

I have Ozone as well. Can I use this to achieve the desired results?

Earl

Err, not really. Ozone is a mastering plugin. It certainly can be used to increase the volume of a song. However, you need the ability to lay out each song back to back, so that you can listen to them as you would on a CD and hear the transitions to see what needs to be raised or lowered.

Wavelab will allow you to do that.

 

[mixsit]

Hey now. Sonar can do that. Has most all the tools you'll need.
Import the two track waves into a new project, do your trims, fades with envelpoes, eq and /or Ozone effects rendered to a new track below the original.
A few noteable exceptions, no super dithering, and CD song ID tools, but you can still adjust time between songs by trimming or adding extra time to the previous song's final export 'selected length'.
I have Waves for dithering, but everything else is in there and works fine.
If you want to get in to it more, say the word. We'll do lunch.
Peace
Wayne

 

[dachay2tnr]

but you can still adjust time between songs by trimming or adding extra time to the previous song's final export 'selected length'.

If I understand what you are saying, won't that end up as a single (really big) track. IOW, you won't be able to advance song to song in a CD player. Track One will be the entire CD.

 

[mixsit]

If I understand what you are saying, won't that end up as a single (really big) track. IOW, you won't be able to advance song to song in a CD player. Track One will be the entire CD.

Oh, not at all. Still do seperate songs. When you export the songs and burn them to disk in order (don't use the default 'two second gap' if that's in there) you can trim them tight so there's almost no gap, or extend the end of a song by selecting extra silence at the end (via the time ruler) which becomes your 'pause' befor the next song starts. You could tag it on the front, but it wouldn't play right off when you jumped to the 'next' song.
I never had a program that edits song ID's, so I don't know how that exactly works, but you still get song tags either way.
cool yhea?
Wayne