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Normalising Audio in Audioshare

Hi,

Just looking for some general advice on this...

If I have some field recordings should I normalise them in Audioshare? What about hits and sound effects i've found online?

What about stuff I record in from synths via Audiobus?

Or will it effect the quality?

Should I only do it if the sound is particularly low?

What type of normalisation is used in Audioshare? (I can't see any settings) Peak or RMS?

Will it make all samples the same volume?

Sorry for the dumb questions - but i'm a big confused on this and didn't feel much less confused after Googling a bit - so thought this great forum might be a good place to ask :).

Comments

  • If you're planning on adding effects or doing any processing that will make the sound louder, don't normalize.

    My advice: Only ever normalize if you've already done all the processing you know you're going to do to a sound, and the sound is still too quiet. I rarely normalize stuff (it definitely has its uses though).

  • I can't really answer 'should' questions. I don't normalize unless I have some reason to.

    It will not affect with the quality of the sound source file.

    Pretty sure Audioshare does Peak. Natch, don't quote me. :) Only guessing that because RMS generally requires options to even make sense.

    Sadly, it will not make all of your samples the same volume. It will make the loudest transient peak of each of your samples the same volume.

    If you have 6 samples and they are all wildly different in volume you could try normalizing them all to see if it helps. Might bring the quiet ones into the same league but probably still on different teams (unless they're all short percussive hits... that'd probably get them all on the same team). Perceived volume is pretty complicated and doesn't often have to do with transients. Mixing and judicious use of compression will get them all on the same team.

  • Brilliant. Thanks both.

    That all makes sense. I hadn't been normalising, but then I read someone advising normalising 'found' samples. Guess it's just one crude way to increase volume.

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