Topic: Soundforge question - SBD Mastering

[jctibbitts]

i posted this in the ask the tapers section, i thought i'd get more responses here....

I did a recording saturday:

sbd > ua-5 (wmod) > jb3

i had the levels a little low the ua-5 out to the jb3 and i could use a little 'beef up'  on the wav file.

i did a 'normalize' on soundforge 7, but really don't know the parameters i should do.  will that fuck up the validity of the recording?  is there an editing tool that can just 'beef up' the highs and lows?

thanks in advance

[jctibbitts]

really?  what does 'normalize' do to the file?  

[Uncle Jimmy]

For my understanding, "normalizing" does this:

  It takes the signal and stretches the highest peaks to fill the full range of sampling, and then keeps all of the ratios of one peak to the next the same. It essentially fills the space with music. There's lots more to it, and why doing it is not as good as using other apps, but that is the basic premise.

Good luck,
UJ