![]() Playing around with it I can see I'm obviously getting different results, and probably overall much better than straight normalizing. If the peak level in the audio happens to be a vinyl "click", the entire track seems to be normalized to that peak. I've finally figured out that blindly normalizing to -6dB is just not optimal. Of course I only have one chance a week to hear the actual results. The latest iteration actually sounded pretty good, if not great. I've been diddling with settings etc trying to get it to sound as good as possible on-air. Normalizing to -6dB seems a little odd to me but that's what they do and I'm trying to comply. It's just what their audio chain is set up for. The only guideline I got from the station is "Normalize to -6dB". It's not my purview to question their workflow or tell them to do it a different way. I suspect they're re-encoding everything and re-normalizing. This "assembly" process is a black box of which I have no detailed information. I hand off the finished MP3 files to the station who then "assembles" the show. ![]() If I'm being really conscientious, I play the entire 2 hours back in real time to make sure I haven't messed anything up that will go out over the air. Clean the record, check the levels (every record is different), record the track, clean up the intros and outros, fix the worst of the "clicks", normalize, populate some basic metadata, export a master WAV file, and then export to the highest quality MP3 possible. It takes me 6-8 hours to do 2 hours of usable tracks. Doing this with vinyl is very problematic, especially from a time standpoint. I'm trying to help them keep the vinyl show going by ripping the host's playlist to MP3 files that can then be "assembled" into a show by the station. Well now nobody can come in to do their show. The host would normally put together a playlist and the accompanying vinyl, bring it in to the station, and play it live. This is particularly problematic for the weekly "Vinyl Revival" show. Since the big lockdown, a local community radio station can't allow their volunteer DJs to come in and do their shows live.
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