Now that I have my first 24-Bit recording under my belt, I'm working on tracking it out so I can seed it. My 16-bit process looked something like:
1 - open in CDWave and split into large full-disc wave files (one file per target disc) if larger than one disc.
2 - open each file in Adobe Audition 1.5 (aka CoolEdit Pro 2), apply fades at start and finish of discs.
3 - in Audition, apply any mastering effects (EQ, Normalization, etc) and save like artist2005-05-09d1t.wav.
4 - open again in CDWave and set tracking points, and save files to new folder. (they get named perfectly with the above prefix).
This process purposely put tracking last because I had experiences where applying fades to already tracked files would break the sector boundries between tracks 1&2 and the last two.
Now for this recent show recorded on my 722... the band played two sets of around 70 minutes each, so for each set I have two files - one just under 2GB, and the other a few hundred megs. Both Adobe Audition and Wavelab can open files and append more to the end, but Audition seems to fail consistently when the total exceeds 2GB. I can do it in Wavelab and have the entire set open at once, but when I try to apply a subsonic filter (EQ) to the entire audio, it also fails... complaining about the 2GB barrier even though I'm not trying to save it.
I've looked at a few 24-bit sources on etree and LMA to see the workflow that others are using, and I see several people doing the tracking in CDWave first. So I tried breaking up one of those 2GB files... tracked it all out, and then opened the first and appended each of the additional ones in Wavelab as one stream. As long as I keep it under 2GB, Wavelab doesn't complain. But then I have to track each 2GB chunk seperately, and apply any effects to them seperately (and consistently). And even then... how do I tell Wavelab to save the individual tracks, not save to a newly generated individual file? I mean... a new large file works, but then I have to open the new file again in CDWave, and apply the saved CUE file to re-track it. Surely there's an easier way.
Any thoughts on this?
Also, is it safe to track out the 24-bit files and then resample and dither the individual tracks (batched) rather than resampling and dithering the full audio and THEN tracking? I wouldn't think this would be okay. In that case, it's one more reason to keep the CUE file around I guess.
Thanks!!
- Jason