Need more volume! using soundforge...

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I recorded a song on my roland VS-1824, I didn't have the master up as high as it could have been, resulting in a good recording, at a lower then industry standard volume.

I'm trying to normalize it with soundforge but when I do that the quality starts to suck :(...

I'd just up the volume on my roland but then I'd have to mix everything again because I used automixing and snap shots (it remembers where you keep the master faders) so..

any ideas? if I upload a mp3 can someone fix it for me?
 
That's weird. Normalizing shouldn't make it sound worse...just a little louder. And maybe not even that much louder, b/c all normalizing does is take the loudest peak in the song and make that 0db.

Sounds like maybe you need to use either some compression (which would probably suck) or some hard limiting...(which is kind of like compression, but usually less noticeable).

Anyway, I have this kinda' ripping migraine right now, so I don't think I'm the guy for the job, but maybe somebody else will help you out.

Good luck,
chris
 
Did you try using the Wave Hammer on it?

BTW, you don't want to fix it as an .mp3. If you are going to work on it, work on it in its wave format. Then convert to .mp3.
 
Every time I used a "normalize" ot compression effect on the whole mix to make it louder, it degraded the overall sound.

You can hear less details (as instrument seperation) in the compressed mixed.
 
I'm pretty sure soundforge converts it to a .wav, then converts it back to an .mp3...

I'm having the same exact problem gilwe is.. I REALLY don't wanna remix this song with the master fader up higher because I am so happy with the mix.. but it seems like I just might have to :(
 
spinrecordings said:
I'm pretty sure soundforge converts it to a .wav, then converts it back to an .mp3...
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This is probably the case, but understand that .mp3 is lossy storage format. This means that information has been removed from the file in order to shrink it's size. Whatever information was lost when it was originally converted to an .mp3 will not be gained back by converting it back to a .wav. And, in fact, will get even worse when you then reconvert back to .mp3 a second time.

You should start with the original wave, then convert to .mp3 just once. You really don't want to be going from .mp3 to .wav and back to .mp3 (unless, for some reason, you have no choice).
 
Thats what I am trying now, I just pulled the song straight off the cd in .cda format, so we'll see what happens! Wish me luck, I REALLY don't feel like mixing this over again but it has to be done by tonight/tomorrow - It's going to a radio station on wednesday
my friend is in a band who is signed to roadrunner records and he wants to let a few people take a listen.
 
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