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Adjust volume before or after noise reduction?
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(Scott Gardner) wrote:
Thanks for the advice so far. I may not have made myself
clear in my original post, since some of the responses have been
concentrating on my playback device rather than the recording process.
Here's the issue I'm having in a nutshell.
If I record the same song twice, once from CD and once from
vinyl, the file created from CD is louder than the file created from
vinyl. This is the case whether I play the files back on my PC or on
my iPod. On the iPod, I find that I'm putting the volume setting at
about 50% for the file that started off life as a CD, and about
60-75% for the file that started off as vinyl, to get about the same
listening level.
Normally, I would chalk this up to simply having the recoding
level set too low when I record from vinyl. But as I mentioned in my
original post, I'm already getting peaks in the -0.5 dB range, and I
have the input level turned all the way up anyway, so I couldn't
increase any further during recording it if I wanted to.
I have some errands to run today, but tonight I'm going to do
more experiments. I'm going to record the same song again from both
CD and vinyl, leaving them in .WAV format so I can analyze them with
SoundForge, and compare both the peak level and the RMS level. If for
some reason, both files are peaking near 0.0 dB, but the CD has a
higher RMS level, that would explain the effects I'm hearing when I
play the files back. I know it *shouldn't* be the case, since CD has
a much higher dynamic range than vinyl, but it will give me something
else to check out.
You may have discovered for yourself that the trend in new masterings is
toward *less* dynamic range. The loudness wars continue.
What was the specific recording?
Stephen
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