Backing Sound Track

Flack wrote on 5/2/2005, 12:05 AM
Whats the best way to set the volume level for my music backing track, I have done this loads of times but there must be an easier way of getting all the tsound files to equal volume.

My problem is that not all my seperate sound files are the same volume so when I add them to my project some work fine with the master sound track but others are to loud or not loud enough.

Any suggetsions from you fellow users on whats my best/quickest work around for this issue

many thanks Flack

Comments

ro_max wrote on 5/2/2005, 12:29 AM
You could normalize your background audio and then bring the normalized material to whatever level appropriate for the main audio. That's what I do with V/O, since it is very difficult to keep the same level (distance to the mike, volume of speaking, etc.), especially, if the recording takes place in serveral sessions.
Spot|DSE wrote on 5/2/2005, 7:43 AM
Normalize will only bring the files to the same PEAK level, but if the dynamics are extreme, or even just common, you'll want to use a compressor to bring the levels more into line. You already have a compressor on the track, try the 3:1 setting to see if that brings it down enough. Hard to say without knowing the overall levels of your track.
So...
Normalize them all, perhaps using the Normalize All script
Put a compressor on the bed track
Put WaveHammer on your master output set to Master for 16 bit.
Flack wrote on 5/2/2005, 10:41 AM
Many thanks for the repllies I will give them a go..

Flack
Former user wrote on 5/2/2005, 10:45 AM
When I encounter this situation I'll either

a) compress the suspect audio, or,
b) normalize (RMS, not peak) the audio

This is where I find working in other tools like Sound Forge comes in handy.