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Balladeer
I was trying to burn a CD including some commercial songs and one of mine. I noticed that the volume level was a lot lower for my song
and decided to have a go at increasing the loudness via Soundforge, as i've read about other people doing this.
Looking at the wave form displayed in SF of the commercial song compared with my own, I noticed (apart from the overall level being higher)
there were fewer peaks and troughs compared with mine. So I tried to get the wave form for my song to look more like the commercial one and achieved this, but it sounded awful! I mean the compression use was obvious, so much so that it affected the sound of the song.
Todo this I used the SF normalize 'RMS' option and pushing it to '0' db.
In the end the only way I could get the level higher without significantly altering the
sound quality of the mix was to use the 'peak' option to '0' db, but no way did the level and wave form approach that of the commercial CD.
Whats the best way of increasing the 'loudness' in Soundforge to a reasonable loudness to the commercial CDs, without spoling the sound of the music? I realise I can't match those produced by the Pro's but I want to
minimise the volume difference between my stuff and the commercial, so poeple don't have to turn up their hifi when they listen to my music!
As you'll have guessed I'm a beginner at all this mastering stuff, so make it simple please!
and decided to have a go at increasing the loudness via Soundforge, as i've read about other people doing this.
Looking at the wave form displayed in SF of the commercial song compared with my own, I noticed (apart from the overall level being higher)
there were fewer peaks and troughs compared with mine. So I tried to get the wave form for my song to look more like the commercial one and achieved this, but it sounded awful! I mean the compression use was obvious, so much so that it affected the sound of the song.
Todo this I used the SF normalize 'RMS' option and pushing it to '0' db.
In the end the only way I could get the level higher without significantly altering the
sound quality of the mix was to use the 'peak' option to '0' db, but no way did the level and wave form approach that of the commercial CD.
Whats the best way of increasing the 'loudness' in Soundforge to a reasonable loudness to the commercial CDs, without spoling the sound of the music? I realise I can't match those produced by the Pro's but I want to
minimise the volume difference between my stuff and the commercial, so poeple don't have to turn up their hifi when they listen to my music!
As you'll have guessed I'm a beginner at all this mastering stuff, so make it simple please!
