I recorded a jazz show where one channel is about 3 dB louder than the other. The problem with fixing it, is that there are places where the channels are over -3 dB. I tried straight gain in Wavelab which sounds fine until I hit the areas that clip (or that now clip with the gain added). I also tried compression, but that affects the overall sound of one track vs. the other. Is this one where I'll have to just deal with it? I tried dropping the higher channel as well, but then it only peaks at -3 dB and I can hear that difference too.
what software are you using?
Wavelab 5 with some Waves plugins if need be. I gave up on it at some point last night. I figured no responses = not really easy to do. It's actually not that bad except in a few spots where I am adjusting levels. Lesson learned here :)
soundforge has a feature that will "soft clip" the overs on the low channel if you normalize it to the overall volume of the high channel. This could help out (somewhat)
i'm confused
normalizing each channel independently is no good?
I didn't try that (though it's too late for this one anyway). I guess if I picked the same RMS level to normalize to, that would have worked?