How do I even out sound levels?

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Re: How do I even out sound levels?

Post by steve » Sat May 23, 2015 10:59 pm

cyrano wrote:MP3's can sound good. But it requires a bit more work than dropping a thousand wav's on an icon and expecting them all to sound good.
Not necessarily the case.
If you have a thousand great sounding WAV files and you convert them to MP3 using Lame's "Extreme" preset, I doubt that you will be able to hear the difference from the original WAV files.
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Re: How do I even out sound levels?

Post by Gale Andrews » Sun May 24, 2015 10:47 am

cyrano wrote:Has anyone tested Reaper's free plugin set with Audacity? Some of these are fantastic and there is a mutli band compressor:
http://www.reaper.fm/reaplugs/
On a very quick play yes these seem to work OK in 2.1.0 now that it supports real-time preview.


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Re: How do I even out sound levels?

Post by cyrano » Sun May 24, 2015 11:04 am

Thanks, Gale. I need to find some time to try these out in Audacity. Ah, well, maybe tomorrow :lol:
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Re: How do I even out sound levels?

Post by rovingcowboy » Sun May 24, 2015 10:29 pm

Gale Andrews wrote:
rovingcowboy wrote:You can use the leveler tool on moderate 2 times it might help.
Unfortunately that can add distortion.
rovingcowboy wrote:But use of the proper eq settings to boost the correct frequencys is the best way.
If you wanted to take the low volume sounds up and the high volume sounds up while maintaining the frequency balance then ideally you would use a multi-band compressor. Audacity only has a full bandwidth compressor but we should not assume that the poster explicitly wants to change the equalization (though that may be a side effect of using Audacity's compressor).


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I'm not in possession of lot's of hardware or software tools I'm answering on how I do it with the default download of audacity. Yes the leveler can mess it up that's why I said might help sometimes it has helped on my files.
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