Topic: What are the best settings to normalize?

[Simp-Dawg]

I wasn't you I was directing that at...

and flacs of your masters is a smart move... more people should be taking such a step before they engage in dsp work that they don't really comprehend.

regardless of how i do in the field (getting better after 1.5 yrs at it) i always keep an untouched 24bit/48khz flac fileset just in case....plus if i do have to do any processing on the file it gets done in this realm and thne later gets resampled/dither so all processing is done at the highest possible accuracy.  

[mterry]

I'd suggest getting good levels in the field.

what a cocky ass comment, hehe, I love it!

[phishn]

"I'd suggest getting good levels in the field. "  First off, I'll be running a DMIC-20 if I can ever get the damn thing to work.  The DMIC-20 only adjusts by 5db so there may be cases where the levels aren't perfect.  I know a Todd Mod may help but I dont dare screw with the unit since its not functioning properly untouched.

[Ed.]

what would be better, normalizing your recording or upping the volume a few db.  considering both are bad, but realizing you need to do something because you didn't get good enuf levels in the field.  i usually normalize, that way i know nothing got clipped, but would the volume increase be better?

ed

[dklein]

Re: rolling eyes...

i wasnt trying to say anything, just what i knew, thanks for shedding new light...

I wasn't you I was directing that at...

It was me he was directing that at.  It just seemed that anything I put into words may have been taken as hostile and I didn't want to get into it...but yes, of course you should try and get good levels in the field.  I thought the questions was about what to do if you don't.

And if you're in the 24 bit realm, good levels become less of an issue.  No point in risking clips with that much resolution available.  You can be 12 dB down and still get an effective 22 bit resolution.

[mterry]

Usually in the field you can get pretty god leveles, but monitoring your levels is a hard task sometimes with souch loud music being played. There was only one time I didnt have to do any editing, but for the most part, editing is always the case

[Chuck]

I record 48 kHz to DAT.  If I'm going to burn a CD, I resample in WaveLab to 44.1 kHz. I've found very few instances where digital editing was necessary.

I have noticed "audible artifacts' from digital editing. Sometimes it adds a harshness to the recoding that wasn't there before.

To me, the best thing is to make a good 48 kHz tape to start with. Make a bit perfect transfer to the HD. Resample using quality software only if necessary. Cut your tracks with CDWav and make SHN/FLAC files or burn some audio CD's from those WAVs.

The less you mess with it, the better it'll sound.