[78-L] overmodulated CDs

[Dave Burnham]

It means rather than normalize the file, (that raises the highest peak to digital "0", you find what the value of the highest level in the file is, then raise the level of the entire file until that peak reaches -1.5 dB. I always do the same thing except I allow the highest peak to reach -.1 dB.

db

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> On Mar 9, 2015, at 10:31 AM, Ron Roscoe <rroscoe at mit.edu.invalid> wrote:
> 
> 
> "If you do what I do, that is, amplify any track to -1.5db, you might find the normalizing will be unnecessary."
> I don't understand what this means!  Could you please explain?
> Thanks,
> Ron Roscoe+
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> 
>> On 3/8/2015 2:32 PM, Rodger Holtin wrote:
>> MP 11 has the same option in the same place and I have always been 
>> sure it was checked before I started.  If I read you right, you're 
>> suggesting I uncheck that and see if it works any better by not 
>> normalizing across all tracks.  At this point I don't have much to 
>> lose by trying that, which, admittedly, I have never done.  Film at eleven.
>> 
>> I suppose the other thing to try is to make sure all my tracks are 
>> lower volume than I have been accustomed to using as standard and see 
>> if that makes a difference.
> If you do what I do, that is, amplify any track to -1.5db, you might find the normalizing will be unnecessary.
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