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Subject:New to it all, and need help Posted by: Jami Date:3/17/2006 3:47:21 PM Hello, I just purchased SF 8.0 and I'm trying to edit a voice recording (WAV format). I have used Volume to increase a very quite section, and I have used Normalize to cut back the large spikes that resulted from increasing the volume.... but The Normalizing cut every thing back I noticed, and although it is still lauder than it was there are lots of spikes and valleys in the recording. Laud - Quite effect. I want the quite made lauder and the laud toned down - I image this to be a more even graph. Can anyone please help me? And can you let me know where I can find how-to tutorials for editing irritating noise mixed in with voice recording, softening laud sound and picking up soft voices? You know the basics :-) Thanks a bunch!
Subject:RE: New to it all, and need help Reply by: Chienworks Date:3/17/2006 4:08:01 PM Normalize doesn't change the relative loud/soft relationship at all. If it makes anything louder, it makes everything louder equally. Take a look at Effects / Wave Hammer. This is a very smart control that can smooth out the differences between loud and soft while barely changing what the recording sounds like at all. It's fairly automatic. About all you have to do is tell it what level of effect you want. If the quiet parts of the recording are around -20dB and the few spikes are at -3dB, try setting it to maybe -18dB. This will gracefully reduce the louder areas, then bring the entire recording to near full volume.
Subject:RE: New to it all, and need help Reply by: Jami Date:3/17/2006 4:27:15 PM Hum... I don't see Wave Hammer under effects, and I did a sreach in help and it returned nothing. I'm trying SF Audio Studio 8.0
Subject:RE: New to it all, and need help Reply by: rraud Date:3/17/2006 4:42:41 PM The Wave Hammer plug-in is probably not included with the Audio Studio version. Try "Average RMS" Normalize with "Apply Dynamic Compression" Where, as Chien pointed out, Peak Normalize.. raises OR lowers the level of the entire file, depending on the output "target" level Or try the Track Compressor or Dynamics> Graphic Compressor. One, the other, or both are included with SF Audio Studio I believe.. Message last edited on3/17/2006 5:17:02 PM byrraud.
Subject:RE: New to it all, and need help Reply by: Jami Date:3/17/2006 5:10:31 PM You know I'm seeing that a lot of the features that sound like I need are in the SF full version (which I cannot afford for talk editing) so doesn anyone know of a good product for editing conferences, speeches etc. that doesn't cost a arm and a leg? I need what I consider the basic features (but then what do I know). Thanks for all your help! Really!
Subject:RE: New to it all, and need help Reply by: Chienworks Date:3/17/2006 9:02:37 PM You can achieve the same thing as the wave hammer by using the track compressor first, then peak normalization. It will be two steps instead of one, but in the long run you'll also have more control.

Subject:New to it all, and need help

Posted by: Jami

Date:3/17/2006 3:47:21 PM

Hello,

I just purchased SF 8.0 and I'm trying to edit a voice recording (WAV format). I have used Volume to increase a very quite section, and I have used Normalize to cut back the large spikes that resulted from increasing the volume.... but

The Normalizing cut every thing back I noticed, and although it is still lauder than it was there are lots of spikes and valleys in the recording. Laud - Quite effect. I want the quite made lauder and the laud toned down - I image this to be a more even graph.

Can anyone please help me?

And can you let me know where I can find how-to tutorials for editing irritating noise mixed in with voice recording, softening laud sound and picking up soft voices? You know the basics :-)

Thanks a bunch!