I have a mix that my buddy recorded onto my MD, and it's way too quiet.

I need to get the volume levels up to peaking at 0db or just over.

does anyone know a good way to do this?

I want some software that will do this, but that doesn't have a lot of extra stuff. I think installing something like Soundforge or CoolEdit for this task would be a bit of overkill.

Preferably, I'd like something small and painless to install, uninstall, has bouncing level meters so I can set it up properly.

A waveform display is not neccesary.

anyone know of a good program for this?

I haven't tried it out myself, but apparently a very decent mastering program is "T-racks". It should be able to do what u want and a bunch more.

Not sure tho!

Thanks dude!

it looks like it would do a good job.

unfortunately, the demo is save disabled. there are ways of getting around that I know, but still, I'd rather have freeware or shareware.

also, when trying to download the program I got this.

http://www.t-racks.com/Demos/T-RackS_Demo.zip

there are no other locations to download it from (at least not from cnet.download.com.

doh!

any other ideas?

http://www.neon1.net/prog/normalizer.html
http://www.bheller.com/file/NormalizeGUI_ini.zip

thanks cable!

extra marks for you in the mixing competition!

just kidding

Hey, me want more marx 2

I suggest Total Recorer, I can give U the prog and crak !!!

U know where 2 find me, unless I'm hiding

Yeah, total recorder isn't quite the right tool for the job.

I'd just be upping the gain levels, and that could introduce some distortion..

but thanks NEway dude.

I downloaded that stuff that cable suggested, I will let you know how it turns out..

the page for the GUI is in french though, I went to a neat translation site and got a pretty decent and readable page anyway though..

check it out, kind of entertaining.

http://fets3.freetranslation.com:50...m&Sequence=core

here is the page I used to find the translation page

http://www.babelfish.com

I use T-racks on all my recordings, it's really great. You can get awsome results.

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Originally posted by RavingLunatic the page for the GUI is in french though, I went to a neat translation site and got a pretty decent and readable page anyway though.. check it out, kind of entertaining. http://fets3.freetranslation.com:50...m&Sequence=core here is the page I used to find the translation page http://www.babelfish.com

u can use http://www.altavista.co.uk as well, they have a translation page for most languages.

The altavista translation uses the babelfish engine anyway. So they are actually the same thing.

Sound Forge is Good. I use the "normalize peak level to 0dB option".

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Yeah but loading up a 790Mb .wav file in soundforge takes a while.

I got it normalized with that nice program cable linked too..
it doesn't have to load the whole thing, so it's nice and quick.

it sounds pretty good. I also might want to apply compression, and maybe do something about the vinyl/needle noise..

anyone know anything for that?

maybe I should start a new thread...