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Offline alienbobz

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"standard" for conversion?
« on: September 19, 2004, 09:53:54 PM »
Ok lately I have felt that I may not be doing enough with the conversion part of my recordings. I have Soundforge 6.0. The majority of the time I just raise the volume by 6 db. Lately I have been doing a few shows where I normalize it, then I lower the db's a bit. The question I have is what seems to be the standard on this? Do I need to do anything else? Can any other experts give me what they usually do for a "normal" recording? All help would be great :P.
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Re: "standard" for conversion?
« Reply #1 on: September 20, 2004, 06:17:31 AM »
I use ProTools.
What I do:
1- if the tracks don't peak above -6dbfs I normalize to 98% or -.02.
2- On the Master Fader I do slight compression, low ratio say 1.5:1, maybe 1 dB-2dB
3. EQ if necessary
4. Use a Limiter, I bring it down until it's louder but doesn't funny, it depends on the style and recording levels so there's not really a standard on that.
5. Set Limiter output to -.03dB (setting it higher can cause problems on some cd systems from what I've been told by engineers)
6. Dither down to 16 Bit.  I usually use 24 bit sessions, even though I'm working with 16-bit audio. The compressor/eq/limiter will work in 48bit(master fader plugins in protools work twice the bit rate of session) so it's higher quality, Dither is on the L1 Limiter I use, so I just make sure thats turned on. Otherwise I'll use a Dith plugin on the last slot.

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Re: "standard" for conversion?
« Reply #2 on: September 20, 2004, 08:16:16 AM »
Just curious - why normalize to 98%? Why not to 100%?
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