Normalise Audio

[mattmatt]

here's a preset I save for audition 3 - it works well. Note that you may need to normalize your audio first and delete silence later (especially for V/O work), and maybe do some hiss/noise reduction after the dynamics too.

Hope this helps :)

[Priceless]

What's the equivalent to "wavehammer" in Adobe Audition?


I don't have Soundforge but my guess would be Hard limiting.
This tool cllips the waveform down to the set level, when rendered the waveform looks like the high peaks have had a hair cut while the lower peaks are not affected.

[Stereodesign]

Normalising and Compression are different though.
Normalising boost the levels to those specified whilst leaving dynamic range intact, while compression, certainly of the Hard Limit and Wave Hammer type, squashed all dynamics flat.
Whilst this may sound OK on rock music IMO it is hideous on V/O.
I would never use more than, say, a gentle 4:1 compresson on VO.
If your VO artist is any good though they can modulate their voice so very little processing is Post is required.
I hate that over compressed pumping VO heard on some programs.

[mike0130]

Originally Posted by iibw

Mike,
Were you able to do a side by side comparison of Wave Arts Power Suite and Sound Forge? I'm not talking about features and capabilities of the programs, I'm talking about the final audio quality of the processed file. Is the sound quality from Power suite that much better than Sound Forge?

I'm just asking because I already have and use Sound Forge, but don't have Power Suite which costs around $600USD.

Sound Forge is a standalone application, while Wave Arts is a plug- in that works inside Edius. It used by a lot of professional audio artists, if you want to save some time and effort and get better sound- go for trial version to try yourself...
Good luck
mike

[iibw]

Hi Mike,
I downloaded and played with Wave Arts Studio Suite! Wow. The suite seems to have realtime tools that can do every conceivable tweak known to a professional audio engineer.

For my purposes though, my favorite plug-in is FinalPlug-5. I like FinalPlug-5 better than TrackPlug-5 because it has a terrific limiter, and a compressor that works simply by adjusting it's threshold. Very clean, very simple, very fast! The good thing about these plugins is that you can hear everything in realtime as you're making the adjustments, without having to render out any .wav files first.

I'm definitely getting FinalPlug-5 to replace my SoundForge normalizing procedure, but the one thing I miss is the waveform...there's no visual way of telling what's happening to the sound file!

Right now I'm experimenting with Trackplug's brickwall. What is your favorite plug-in and why?

[cuervo]

FMM, you can't beat Izotope Ozone.