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Title: Leveling out a gradual volume adjustment
Post by: Massive Dynamic on January 28, 2013, 11:37:18 PM
I'm working on a show that's a couple of years old and I need to stop putting it off. I gradually lowered the recording volume about 12db over a space of 1 minute. I'd like to reverse this. Should I chop up that 1 minute section into 24 2.5 second chunks and add .5db increases incrementally? I don't think my software has a volume envelope function, and I'm under the impression that Audacity (1.3.14-beta for the Mac) doesn't do well exporting 24-bit files. Any suggestions?
Title: Re: Leveling out a gradual volume adjustment
Post by: ScoobieKW on January 28, 2013, 11:41:28 PM
Reaper has an easy envelope tool. Free trial and not too expensive to buy. Mac and windows
Title: Re: Leveling out a gradual volume adjustment
Post by: ilduclo on January 29, 2013, 09:10:00 AM
some folks have programs that will do so, cut the area as a track and list the db increase you want, I'd be glad to try it.
Title: Re: Leveling out a gradual volume adjustment
Post by: achalsey on January 29, 2013, 12:18:14 PM
Reaper has an easy envelope tool. Free trial and not too expensive to buy. Mac and windows

Agreed on the envelope tool.  Any program with it should work.  Reaper is a free trial indefinitely which is pretty nice.  Current Audacity works just fine as well.
Title: Re: Leveling out a gradual volume adjustment
Post by: ScoobieKW on January 29, 2013, 12:55:16 PM
Reaper has an easy envelope tool. Free trial and not too expensive to buy. Mac and windows

Agreed on the envelope tool.  Any program with it should work.  Reaper is a free trial indefinitely which is pretty nice.  Current Audacity works just fine as well.

Only caveat about Reaper, the envelope tool maxes out at +6 DB, you'll need to drag down below 0 DB to -6db to get the 12 db of change you are looking for.