On 12/24/2010 02:53 PM, Q wrote: > Hello > > I'm wanting to batch process a bunch of wav files, normalising them all > to -0.3 dBFS. that's high! you will almost certainly get distortion in the analog stages of cheaper playback equipment with a signal that hot. think inter-sample peaks. > I thought I could do this with normalize/normalize-audio, but it doesn't > look to be possible. The man page suggests that simply analysing the > file and raising the level so the loudest peak is 0 dBFS isn't > normalising, which is news to me: depends. that's peak normalisation. what you probably want is loudness normalisation, which adjusts the levels so that the perceived loudness is constant across tracks. in a presentation i heard recently, the presenter played a metallica single, in direct comparison to pink noise at full scale. the metallica mix was significantly louder. go figure... > " --peak > Adjust using peak levels instead of RMS levels. Each file will be > adjusted so that its maximum sample is at full scale. This just gives a > file the maximum volume possible without clipping; no normalization is > done." that is a funny definition of normalisation. > That would be okay, except I want them normalising to something other > than full scale. > > Is there a quick and easy way to do this? like julien suggested, use a standard peak normalizer and then attenuate by 0.3dB )(if you are sure that's what you want to do). _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
