Volume of my mixing

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Terry Ko
Member Since: May 10, 2007

I discover an interesting thing,
please help to give me some reasons:

I mix a music in Sonar 6 SE, to 44.1khz Wave,
then I use CDEX to convert it to mp3,
with volume normalization.

Then I listen it in my mp3 player,
it is loud, but not really loud.

Then I try to burn a CD using that wave file,
and choose volume normalization in Nero.
After burning,
I extract that CD audio to mp3 again using CDEX,
and put it in my mp3 player.
This one is much louder!!

So I wonder,
is there a different normalizing algorithm when burning a CD and make it much louder than normalizing in PC's files?

Thanks~~~

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Hold 'Em Czar
Member
Since: Dec 30, 2004


May 24, 2007 03:32 pm

ummm probably...but normally 'normalizing' means it just brings the loudest peak *that's transient* (not RMS, which is 'volume') up to 0db...now if you want to make things louder, normalizing is not the way to go about it...peak limiting is....as for the discrepency between your programs, i don't know much about that...point is "normalize" does not mean "make as loud as commercial cd's".

Czar of Midi
Administrator
Since: Apr 04, 2002


May 24, 2007 10:35 pm

Don't use Cdex. Use the export to mp3 option in Sonar. And yes, normalize the final stereo mix.

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