Barb Beck, you wrote,
>If you signal is not great (usual case and one
>which makes nature recording much different from music recording) the first
>thing I do is to amplify it. I use the normalize function which makes the
>loudest part at full volume.
I don't think it's a good idea to normalize audio files. It's going
to make a quiet ambience that should be played at a low level much
too loud, so you'd have to play it back with the volume control just
barely cracked open. It also gives your file no headroom, which you
need if you do any equalization.
If something's recorded too low, by all means bring it up. But keep
your monitor volume at a normal setting, and raise the level of the
file to where it sounds right.
-Dan Dugan
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