Volume Normalize

[keithdowling]

Hi All, hoping someone has the answer to the following: My music is on an external drive, I ran it through the volume normalize process to get rid of a lot of the volume inconsistencies (from album to album, file to file etc) and I set it at 0 dB but the little box that is for amplification (showing 8 in the example in dBPoweramp) I couldn't see any indication of what is the best/optimal setting for this - so I used 8. Is this OK or is there a better setting/number for this "amplification" option?

Thanks

[Spoon]

Re: Volume Normalize

what exact settings do you have on the volume normalize page?

[keithdowling]

Re: Volume Normalize

EBU R 128 (track gain) Desired volume set to max )dB Maximum amplification set to 8

[keithdowling]

Re: Volume Normalize

whoops that should have read: 0dB not ")dB"

[Spoon]

Re: Volume Normalize

The max amplification option is just an option to stop silence being amplified up too much, so it is x8 maximum in your case.

[keithdowling]

Re: Volume Normalize

would it not be better to use a lesser number than 8. If it is really concerned with the amplification of silence - why would we want to amplify that at all?
Surely there comes a point when you amplify what was intended as silence (on a recording etc) that said silence becomes hiss.??

Wouldn't zero be a better number to use?

Thanks spoon

[Spoon]

Re: Volume Normalize

8x on near silence would not normally become hiss. However quiet tracks could easily be amplified by x4 or x6. x8 sounds a lot, but audio is perceived logarithmically.