Including normalizing in the effects chain? -Sound Forge - PC

Subject:Including normalizing in the effects chain? Posted by: MikeA Date:11/15/2005 8:54:49 AM I'm trying to come up with a simple system so I can have my associate sound techs start doing some of the computer audio work instead of me doing all of it. We record all the sermons at our church and then dump them to the computer and save them as .wav's to dupe as CDs and also as .mp3's to post on our website. The processes I usually use are Normalize --> EQ --> Reverb --> Cut heads & tails and fade in/out. I'd like to set up an effects chain to do everything but the cutting of the heads & tails and fading but Normalizing doesn't show up as an effect (I know it's a process). Is there some way to add Normalizing to an Effects chain or should I just set up a Batch process?
Subject:RE: Including normalizing in the effects chai Reply by: Chienworks Date:11/15/2005 9:08:28 AM Try Wave Hammer instead of normalize. It has some very nice options and does a better job when you aren't going to sit there tweaking all the settings individually. Interesting that you add reverb. Generally the recordings we get have too much natural reverb already. I can't imagine adding more.
Subject:RE: Including normalizing in the effects chai Reply by: MikeA Date:11/15/2005 11:11:10 AM Like I said, I usually do. Sometimes there is enough naturally that I don't need to. We've got 6 mics hanging over the congregation and I always make sure to turn all but 2 off and those I bring down, but sometimes they're brought down too much and it ends up being dryer than I feel it needs to be. Good point about Wave Hammer. I've used it before but Normalize seems to just make the file louder without adding a 'compressed' sound to it. But you are right I can save a setting that's not too drastic and chain it in so I'll probably do that.
Subject:RE: Including normalizing in the effects chai Reply by: jumbuk Date:11/16/2005 2:25:29 PM You can normalise as part of a batch process - you could set up a batch job they could run on all files in a folder.

Subject:Including normalizing in the effects chain?

Posted by: MikeA

Date:11/15/2005 8:54:49 AM

I'm trying to come up with a simple system so I can have my associate sound techs start doing some of the computer audio work instead of me doing all of it. We record all the sermons at our church and then dump them to the computer and save them as .wav's to dupe as CDs and also as .mp3's to post on our website. The processes I usually use are Normalize --> EQ --> Reverb --> Cut heads & tails and fade in/out. I'd like to set up an effects chain to do everything but the cutting of the heads & tails and fading but Normalizing doesn't show up as an effect (I know it's a process). Is there some way to add Normalizing to an Effects chain or should I just set up a Batch process?

Subject:RE: Including normalizing in the effects chai

Reply by: Chienworks

Date:11/15/2005 9:08:28 AM

Try Wave Hammer instead of normalize. It has some very nice options and does a better job when you aren't going to sit there tweaking all the settings individually.

Interesting that you add reverb. Generally the recordings we get have too much natural reverb already. I can't imagine adding more.

Subject:RE: Including normalizing in the effects chai

Reply by: MikeA

Date:11/15/2005 11:11:10 AM

Like I said, I usually do. Sometimes there is enough naturally that I don't need to. We've got 6 mics hanging over the congregation and I always make sure to turn all but 2 off and those I bring down, but sometimes they're brought down too much and it ends up being dryer than I feel it needs to be.

Good point about Wave Hammer. I've used it before but Normalize seems to just make the file louder without adding a 'compressed' sound to it. But you are right I can save a setting that's not too drastic and chain it in so I'll probably do that.

Subject:RE: Including normalizing in the effects chai

Reply by: jumbuk

Date:11/16/2005 2:25:29 PM

You can normalise as part of a batch process - you could set up a batch job they could run on all files in a folder.