volume loss from vegas to cd

calvin wrote on 10/30/2001, 3:43 PM

When I finish a song in Vegas and then burn it onto cd it always comes out with a lesser amplitude than most professional storebought discs. Is there a trick or maybe some mastering program I need to boost my volume?

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Victorious wrote on 10/30/2001, 5:43 PM

try to normalize the audio before burning...maybe that will help?

calvin wrote on 10/31/2001, 9:55 AM

thanks victorious, and i apologize for being an idoit but what do you mean by "normalize" volume before burning? thanks for your time-calvin

Victorious wrote on 10/31/2001, 4:29 PM

...normalizing audio means that you are taking the highest transient peak of the audio and making it 0 db...for example, if you have recorded some audio amd the waveforms seem small (short in height) you probably haven't recorded it as loud as you could (on a side note: it's important to record the audio as hot as possible without clipping to use the full bit range in the recording)...say the loudest part of the recording hits -6 db, you would want to normalize the audio so that the highest peaks of the recording are now at 0 db...BUT if you have one unusually high peak in a recording that consists of mainly average height peaks then normalizing won't be as effective because it will bring the one high peak to 0 db while leaving the rest of the audio still too low...in that case you would want to edit that peak in a wav editor (Sound Forge or Cool Edit) to bring the peak to the average height and THEN normalize...you can also use compression when recording to avoid unusually high peaks in a recording...as far as normalizing audio in Vegas you would right click on the audio event and go to switches and then click on normalize...you should see the waveform increase in height in the event...hope that helped a bit...