On Fri, November 5, 2010 1:20 am, Sampo Savolainen wrote: > On Tue, 2010-11-02 at 21:45 -0700, Patrick Shirkey wrote: >> However I swear that all I did was export the mix once with normalise >> enabled (at 11:40pm on 31 October 2010) and once with it disabled during >> day light hours on 01 November. > > I just downloaded the start of both original FLAC files (to about 1:40), > exported to wavs and matched their gains, swapped the polarity of one, > and presto: a combined signal at < -120dB. There are no differences in > the mixes except overall level. > > So this proves two things: > 1. You did nothing but switched normalization (at least for the part I > tested) between the mixes. > 2. Normalization works as expected: it only adds gain. > > Whatever differences you are hearing between the mixes is all in your > playback system. > It think it is a bit more subtle. I have listened to the mix on several systems now and have found that the overall levels are not exactly what I am hearing when I listen with ardour. That could be partly related to the exporter, my sound card which I am mixing on being a high quality audio device and the general levels being just not quite right. I am working on toning down the tracks that have become distorted in the export process. -- Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd. "ZPE is not about creating something from nothing: It is about using the zero point of a wave as a means to transform other forms of potential energy like magnetic flux, heat, or particle spin into usable energy in such a way that entropy appears to be reversed." _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
