28 Jul
2005
28 Jul
'05
8:37 p.m.
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 06:18:34PM -0400, Chaz Worm wrote:
Here's my problem. I'm pretty sure it can be rectified with
linux but I don't know how. I recorded an small low-budget cd
in a small local studio a few years ago. Although I loved the
end result, the cd itself never had the loudness that a regular
cd had. I would be playing it at a reletively loud range and
then change cd's and always, the other cd would be nearly twice
as loud. How can I make these songs louder?
What you're talking about here is Mastering, and there's a great
program called Jamin that's all about mastering. You'll need to
open up your stereo mixes in a Jack-ified program and run them
through Jamin to do some loudening wizadry. Check out this
tutorial by Ron Parker at:
http://jamin.sourceforge.net/en/tutorial.html
On my old recordings there were done with a cheesy
four-track,
how can I make there cleaner?
I've had some pretty decent results with Gnome Wave Cleaner, you
might want to try it.
http://gwc.sourceforge.net/
Some of my old recordings that have been copied over
from old
tapes are too hot and therefore get a really annoying digital
distortion. Can I clean those up too?
Once a wave is clipped, it isn't really possible to regain that
lost information, AFAIK. There might be a tool available that can
reduce the annoyingness of the clips, but if you can, I'd
redub the tapes at a lower volume.
Hope this helps ya out,
spencer