I guess I need a lesson on adding points, my guess is that it will be a very valuable function to know. Can someone walk me through it??
I'm working with a live drum track now where a few snare hits are just too soft. I then have a vocal track where a word or two is also too soft to work around.
Thanks Much,
Jeff

If SOME of the snare hits(and a word or two) are to soft I would
-select te track,
-select the hit on the timeline
-do a split

Now you got a new event with the soft hit...then:
- Normalize the event
-bring the volume down on that event just by grabbing the very top of the event and moving it down(as described by Pipe)
(Works only if the whole track is not normalized or the volume is brought down by grapping the volume-envelope on the remaining event(s),ofcourse)

I find it only useful if it is only for a couple of weak hits,if the track contains an very uneven flow of dynamics I would resort to compression and such.

Hope this was useful,

Gerard

I'm sorry I'm such a slow learner but here is what I thought Vegas should be able to do. Lets say I have a snare hit that is too soft,
I highlight the track and split the snare hit on both sides of the wave form. Then press Shift+V. I thought I would get the volume enelope or curser in the middle of just the split section so I could raise or lower the volume on just that split section. When I perform the above functions the volume envelope or curser line shows up on the track in the center like it should but on the entire track, not just the split event. Is ther a way to do what I'm describing?

sort of, as was described above, you can always turn down any event

Also, as above if that event isnt peaking at -0dbfs, you can right click and normalize the event to turn it up a bit

Sometimes if I know Im going to be doing a lot of this, I will select all events on a track then drag the event trim down to -6dB to give me some room to always turn it up if needed. Try that

But again, be very aware that the per event volume is PRE channel fx insert!!!!!

Depending on what you are trying to do, you would likely want to use the volume envelopes that you get hitting SHift-V, which are POST channel fx insert

I had the same problem as I am also a Vegas noob. In premeire I was able to split sections and adjust the gain up or down on each track. I couldn't figure out how to do this in Vegas.

As a quick fix, I dragged the events that needed an increase in gain to a seperate audio track, and then used the track gain to increase the volume. I'm sure this is not the right way to do it, but if you are trying to finish up a project right away, this might help :)

Pardon me for saying this, but you're making it too hard for yourselves. Don't bother splitting at all. Adding a volume envelope lets you adjust and vary the volume from point to point independantly of any other spot on the track. Wherever you want to change the volume double-click on the blue volume envelope line to add a node (looks like a square dot). You can then drag these dots up or down to increase or decrease the volume. Add as many dots as you wish.

For a typical scenario, suppose there is a section a couple seconds long that is too loud. Add two nodes just before that section and also two more nodes after it. Drag the line between the two sets of nodes down to reduce the volume. You'll see the line start curving at the first point, drop down to the second, go straight across to the third, then curve back up to the fourth. By changing the spaces between the nodes you can control how fast the volume fades as well.