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Title: Wavelab normalizing??
Post by: Chapper on February 25, 2004, 01:44:03 PM

I think I want to normalize, but perhaps not.  
I have a big .wav file that the levels were drastically adjusted at three seperate times.   I'd like to get the levels approx. even throughout the wav.  Specifically, I'd like to get the levels to match the first part of the .wav where the levels are the highest.  
Can anyone offer a quick description of how to do this?
Many thanks!
(It's the soundboard from  DBT last week...we patched out of the house dat, so were at the mercy of the light guy's level setting).

Title: Re:Wavelab normalizing??
Post by: Simp-Dawg on February 25, 2004, 02:28:25 PM

normalizing in and of itself will not make the levels uniform throughout the recording...what you may want to do is mark it at places where the volume changes...normalize each section separately to the same value.
i may be wrong here but that should do it.

Title: Re:Wavelab normalizing??
Post by: zowie on February 26, 2004, 02:31:11 PM

If you have a few big section to section changes, you should change the gain in each section "by hand."  Save undo info, it may take a few tries to get it right.

When you're more or less in the neighborhood, you can also play with the plug-in called Peak Master (or something similar) to get a more uniform sound throughout.

Title: Re:Wavelab normalizing??
Post by: Cooker on March 01, 2004, 02:32:18 PM

i have read that you can apply an envelope filter to the trasitions to smooth it out .. but i've never been able to do that. i end up marking about 20 segments for each trasnition and changing the gain in each by hand. this rarely sounds like i want it to but i've yet to learn of a better way.

i'll play with peak master tonight and see how that works out...

Title: Re:Wavelab normalizing??
Post by: Chapper on March 02, 2004, 05:52:02 PM

Quote from: cooker on March 01, 2004, 02:32:18 PM

i have read that you can apply an envelope filter to the trasitions to smooth it out .. but i've never been able to do that. i end up marking about 20 segments for each trasnition and changing the gain in each by hand. this rarely sounds like i want it to but i've yet to learn of a better way.

i'll play with peak master tonight and see how that works out...

I'll see if I can find any onfo on the envelope filter...that is the tough part of hand changing, the transitions.