<div class="gmail_quote">2009/4/15 <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hollunder@gmx.at">hollunder@gmx.at</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:37:29 +0200<br>
Raffaele <<a href="mailto:raffaele.morelli@gmail.com">raffaele.morelli@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>
> 2009/4/14 Viktor Mastoridis <<a href="mailto:viktor@mastoridis.co.uk">viktor@mastoridis.co.uk</a>><br>
><br>
> ><br>
> > Hi Linux Audio Geeks<br>
> ><br>
> > In my musical prehistory, while I was on Windows, I used to use a<br>
> > program called SoundForge that had one very useful feature:<br>
> > normalizing audio levels with RMS, even using the Equal Loudness<br>
> > Contour<br>
> ><br>
> > For a whole year I am struggling now to find something similar on<br>
> > Linux, without much success.<br>
> ><br>
> > Any help/hints will be much appreciated.<br>
> ><br>
> > Viktor<br>
> ><br>
><br>
> Hi,<br>
><br>
> if the the goal is to have a sound file play as loud as possible I<br>
> would use Jamin, so you can take care about frequencies, if needed.<br>
><br>
> If you are going to normalize a telephone conversation maybe you<br>
> don't need such accuracy.<br>
><br>
> regards<br>
> -r<br>
<br>
I don't really see how RMS can be that useful, at least not when you<br>
try to get stuff as loud as possible. You still have to watch for peaks<br>
because of clipping.</blockquote><div><br>Frequencies compression (as peak one) allows you boost the overall volume of your track which in turns increases its loudness <=> RMS.<br>Of course you must take care of peaks but meters (and ears) are your friends.<br>
<br><a href="http://jamin.sourceforge.net/en/loudness.html">http://jamin.sourceforge.net/en/loudness.html</a><br><br>regards<br>-r<br></div></div><br>