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Title: Questions About Boosting The Volume on a show
Post by: porcelmc on June 06, 2008, 08:19:41 PM

I just recorded a show last weekend and am looking for reccomendations for software to use to raise the volume. Also once I decide the software I am gonna try out, how exactly should I do it.

I am not really familiar with alot of the technical terms on this site so if you can dumb it down for a noob here I would really appreciate it.

Thanks in advance!

Title: Re: Questions About Boosting The Volume on a show
Post by: flipp on June 06, 2008, 08:30:12 PM

Download and install Audacity; a free, open source, multi-platform audio editor.
Import the wav file of the show.
highlight entire file
from one of the menus, select amplify (how much depends on where the signal peaks), when happy with results, save/export or whatever audacity's option is

I'm not at a comp that has Audacity on it so can't be more specific. Audacity does have a rudimantary help file which will explain the basics, but not much else. If all you want to do is boost the signal, it is all you'll need and it can do many other things as your editing needs expand.

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/  I recommend the last stable release (1.2.6)

< also search ts for "workflow" by Brian Skalinder who has posted numerous detailed workflows for various editing programs >

Title: Re: Questions About Boosting The Volume on a show
Post by: Dede2002 on June 06, 2008, 09:32:00 PM

Quote from: flipp on June 06, 2008, 08:30:12 PM

Download and install Audacity; a free, open source, multi-platform audio editor.
Import the wav file of the show.
highlight entire file
from one of the menus, select amplify (how much depends on where the signal peaks), when happy with results, save/export or whatever audacity's option is

I'm not at a comp that has Audacity on it so can't be more specific. Audacity does have a rudimantary help file which will explain the basics, but not much else. If all you want to do is boost the signal, it is all you'll need and it can do many other things as your editing needs expand.

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/  I recommend the last stable release (1.2.6)

< also search ts for "workflow" by Brian Skalinder who has posted numerous detailed workflows for various editing programs >

Skalinder's workflow:
http://taperssection.com/index.php/topic,71191.0.html
Hope that helps  ;)

Title: Re: Questions About Boosting The Volume on a show
Post by: porcelmc on June 07, 2008, 04:05:32 PM

Great info guys, thanks for the help!

Title: Re: Questions About Boosting The Volume on a show
Post by: porcelmc on June 10, 2008, 09:51:44 PM

I just started to play around with Audacity and found it really easy to use for raising the volume. I raised it -.5 db and am very happy with the results. I tried to amplify at -1.0db and it started to sound distorted.

I also found this video tutorial somewhat helpful as well and answered any other questions I woulda had:

http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=0a8bdf431d5427d1f29b

Thanks again for the recommendation!