Quick ? about "Group Wave...Normalize"...

[crispycutz]

Hey every1,

You know how sometimes is just hard to try to keep the levels of different sessions exactly the same, (EQ, Volume etc.) well I have a few trks. that I wanted to sound as professional as possible, but the mixdowns differ slightly in overall volume, and predominant frequency presence.

I've been trying to individually EQ each track, while looking at the frequency anaylisis to bring them closer together, but some songs are bass heavy while others are saturated "shine" and stuff....I don't wanna take away from any one of them.

Does group waveform Normalize, "Hard Limit" so to speak? I don't want to f**k up my mixes,

Would just amplifing each individual mixdown + or - till its close to 0db be a better solution?

Thanks for any input...

-Chris

 

[ozpeter]

Group Waveform Normalise doesn't HAVE to hard limit - it depends how you set it up. I did once suss it out by experimentation with copy files, but sadly I can't now remember the magic recepie, and I've no plan to use it myself in the forseeable future. I'll leave you to play with it then - my best recollection is that after the analysis stage, you have to enter (or accept) a figure for how much it is going to boost your files - then you have to watch the figure for how much it will hard limit your files, and reduce the boost till the limit is zero. Something like that.... it's essential to use copies of files when testing to ensure you don't end up with irrevesable alterations.