rjawad001 Posted September 15, 2012 Share Posted September 15, 2012 hello, i have several audio files of lectures (guy talking). i guess they were recorded at different volumes, because some are very loud and others are quiet. what is the best way to scale them so that they are all the same volume level? is this called normalizing? the help manual talks about normalizing for a single region. that is not what i want, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hungrydave Posted September 15, 2012 Share Posted September 15, 2012 normalise boosts audio relatively as high as it can go without clipping. Normalising the entire thing would not help you as all the volumes would move relatively. ie. the differences in level would still be the same, just the overall volume would change I would normalise the regions independently (one by one), put them on different tracks in logic and if neccesary use the faders to balance them against each other, then bounce all that stuff to one track and normalise that track Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ski Posted September 16, 2012 Share Posted September 16, 2012 +1 to what Dave said. Keep in mind that the appropriate volume level for speaking voice is going to change depending on the delivery. If (say) the person gave a very animated delivery, where he was both shouting and whispering amidst talking at normal conversational level, you wouldn't want to normalize everything because then the whispers and conversational parts would end up being unnaturally louder than the shouting (which would already be closer to the volume ceiling you'd achieve with normalizing). There is also the matter of noise floor... It could be that he spoke at the same relative volume between two or more different lectures, but that the recorded level of one lecture is just lower than the others. Raising the volume of the lower-volume lecture is going to raise the noise floor on that recording, which will be objectionable to listen to. Stuff to keep in mind... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjawad001 Posted September 16, 2012 Author Share Posted September 16, 2012 ok, i think that answers my question. i thought there was just a one way fix but now that i think about it, background noise and such is going to make things a little more complicated. i might be better off just adjusting the volume manually. that's for the help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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