Re: Sound Forge, normalizing and Volume

2007-05-17 Thread Michael Lang
Tony, you wrote: > but can't determine how to make the recording's volume to even out. All I > manage to do is increase the overall volume of the recording. And that's exactly what normalize should do: Increase the overall volume. You seem to want to compress the audio. There are other tools to

Re: Sound Forge, normalizing and Volume

2007-05-16 Thread Bruce Toews
One of the nice things about Gold Wave is that there's a GWAmp plugin for it that lets you use Winamp effects plugins. So you can get a compressor/limiter for Winamp, configure it just the way you like it, and then get Gold Wave to process your file through it. bruce -- Bruce Toews Skype ID:

Re: Sound Forge, normalizing and Volume

2007-05-16 Thread Matthew Bullis
Hello, if you want to use the normalization feature in SF, you would select those parts which are lower than the rest, and normalize those one by one. I should add a statement that the noise will spike up louder and drop lower, and will not be smooth between transitions. If you ever are dealing wit

Sound Forge, normalizing and Volume

2007-05-16 Thread Tony Swartz
Apparently I don't understand the purpose of normalizing. I was under the impression that by using normalize under the processing menu in Sound Forge, one could average out the volume of a selected portion or an entire file. I've made a recording first speaking softly then raising my voice then