Dan Dugan:
> >What's the nature of the recording?
Chuck Bragg:
> any recording, actually. I want to listen inside a running
>automobile, and in any recording with too much dynamic range I have
>to 'ride the gain' while listening. Some bird calls are like this,
>but I am just as interested for music. In my editing software you
>can't automate the process at all. I was hoping for something that
>would allow me to batch process files.
This process is better done at the playback end than in the
recording. It's the playback environment that has the problem.
Solutions are starting to be approached in Dolby Digital standards
for movie playback on DVDs--you can set your DVD player or surround
receiver at several dynamic range settings--but the human engineering
is almost completely lacking. You have to access a menu and set it.
The "late night" setting would be suitable for listening in a car.
I know you're not playing DVDs, but I just wanted to explain that
some people -are- thinking about dynamic ranges of recordings needing
to be different in different environments.
See:
http://www.tvtechnology.com/features/audio_notes/f_tc_Audio_notes-08.20.03.shtml
and
http://www.octiv.com/pdf/OctiMax_Embedded_Whitepaper.pdf
I hear the European digital radio system includes dynamic range
control at the receiving end.
-Dan Dugan
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Loudspeakers are not birds,
A listening room is not nature."
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