If I have to I will, but I've got several clips scattered throughout the over 50 clips so it would be grinding work. Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: neville To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 07:27 Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Normalizing Clips Why not try using the gain control on the clips you want to be louder? Then after you get them to the level you want you can use a little compression. May the peace of God that passes all understanding guard your heart and mind in Christ Jesus God Bless You! email neville@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Website http://www.nevillepeter.com phone number 407-222-4488 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dave Carlson Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 9:31 AM To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Normalizing Clips Brian, Thanks, I did think that I needed to keep the clips separate, but wanted to be sure. The normalize isn't getting some of these clips even close to each other in overall listening volume, so I'm wondering if I should use some other tools like removing dc offset -- what does that do, actually? I also posted a question on another list about needing to trim all my clips so that there were no remnants of other clips being used in the overall processing of levels? Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: Bryan Smart To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, August 09, 2009 16:14 Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Normalizing Clips Wen you select a track and run normalize, it should normalize each of the clips separately. Once you use bounce to clips, all the clips become one large clip, and so the normalize command would only boost that one clip with enough gain so that its loudest area wouldn't clip. Therefore, I think that you should load each of the files on to one track, leave them as individual clips, and run normalize on the complete track. There really isn't a need for you to use bounce to clips at all in this scenario. Bryan ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dave Carlson Sent: Sunday, August 09, 2009 11:08 AM To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ddots-l] Normalizing Clips Hello Audio Experts, Using Sonar 7 and CT. I've got about 50 clips that I've collected and first used fade -in and fade-out processing, that I want to eventually have all played in a continuous sequence on a single track. However the overall volume levels are differnt, since these all come from different CDs and different masterings. I'd like them all to be fairly close to each other in volume. Is there a difference in these three scenarios: 1. 50 clips, each on 50 tracks, and compressing or normalizing them after selecting all the tracks? - or - 2. 50 clips, all end-to-end on a single track, normalizing or compressing them after selecting the entire track? - or - 3. Bounce all clips to a single track as a single clip, and then normalizing or compressing the track? What's the difference or benefits to each? Keep in mind that I want to retain the fade-in and fade-out. Dave No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.392 / Virus Database: 270.13.49/2293 - Release Date: 08/10/09 06:10:00