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| vito |
i'm not sure where to post this, i'll try here
i've got a lot of radio recordings at 192 kbps mp3
i'm using sound forge 6, what should i do to optimize the recordings before i burn them?
what is the purpose of normalizing?
and is there anything else i should know about?
thanks
(if i edit a file in sound forge, save it. then re-edit and save it again, will there be sound degradation?) |
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| Jiggilo |
| quote: | Originally posted by vito
i'm not sure where to post this, i'll try here
i've got a lot of radio recordings at 192 kbps mp3
i'm using sound forge 6, what should i do to optimize the recordings before i burn them?
what is the purpose of normalizing?
and is there anything else i should know about?
thanks
(if i edit a file in sound forge, save it. then re-edit and save it again, will there be sound degradation?) |
The purpose of normalizing is so that every mp3 is at the same "sound level" so you dont have to turn up your speakers sooo much to hear your music. Like if you had a song that wasnt normalized and it was really quite... you would have to turn it really high up, now when that song changes to a song that is normalized your speakers are gonna be extremely loud. so its good to have everything around the same level. You dont nessiceraly have to normalize it, you could record it near a "normal" state... And as far as editing a file and saveing it, then re editing and save it again. From what i understand you should not notice a difference in sound degradtion DEPENDING upon what you edit, just resaving it will not do anything to it. |
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| kevM |
| If your saving the file as a .wav there should be no sound degradation, but if you save it as an mp3 there will be degradation. |
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| vito |
ok, should i normalize using a peak level of 0dB?
and this prevents clipping, which i believe is the loss of sound because its too loud?
yes i was saving to mp3,but i still have the file open, i haven't saved it yet
would it be better to record into wave format, then edit and encode to mp3
or record to mp3, then edit and save as mp3? |
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| Jiggilo |
| quote: | Originally posted by vito
ok, should i normalize using a peak level of 0dB?
and this prevents clipping, which i believe is the loss of sound because its too loud?
yes i was saving to mp3,but i still have the file open, i haven't saved it yet
would it be better to record into wave format, then edit and encode to mp3
or record to mp3, then edit and save as mp3? |
Its best to leave your recording at wave format, until you are completely finished editing it - then finally transfer it to mp3. if its already mp3, convert back to wav and do all your editing until you are compeletly finished. And yes normaly you would normalize using a peak level of 0 |
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| DJ Mikey Mike |
i always record, enhance it buy +1 using the enhance/smooth option, use the DC Offset feature, normalise, then convert to 192kbps.  |
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| vito |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ Mikey Mike
then convert to 192kbps. |
is it possible to use LAME encoder in sound forge?
i looked around but couldn't find anything about it |
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| DJ Mikey Mike |
| quote: | Originally posted by vito
is it possible to use LAME encoder in sound forge?
i looked around but couldn't find anything about it |
Hmm no. Do all ur work in soundforge. Then when ur done go File -> Save As.. then close soundforge, open up LAME and encode ur wav file. |
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| vito |
seems sound forge won't work with wave files the size i want it to (3.5-6 hours long)
but it will work with mp3s at that size, so although it'll lose a little quality, theres nothing i can do
i'm happy enough to finally edit these files anyway |
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| Jiggilo |
| Probably because of Hard drive size, 6 hours of a wav file is HUGE!! better make sure your hd has that much free space! |
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| vito |
| quote: | Originally posted by Jiggilo
Probably because of Hard drive size, 6 hours of a wav file is HUGE!! better make sure your hd has that much free space! |
i tried to open a 5 hour file (2.92GB) and it didn't open it, the file had already been created/recorded
all the programs i tried can't handle files this size, sound forge is the only one i've found that can work with mp3s of this size
i guess the programmers thought no-one would want to work with files that size so they didn't make programs that could handle it |
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