Question about CD burning. When you make mixes, obviously you use tracks from different sources. Thing is, different CDs (or whatever sources) are mastered at different volume levels. I don't know about everyone else, but I want my mixes to be at a consistent volume; I don't want to have to change the volume on my system song after song.
My question is, how does one do this in the easiest and most efficient manner? My external burner (which I got when they first started coming out) does not let you do it if you're burning from one of the drives, but you can record it analog through wires from a seperate source. I used to do that, but that got cumbersome, and you had to play around and test the volume before you recorded. It was also a pain to hook up different devices. (I basically only use that burner now if I'm burning audio from other formats like DVDs, vinyl, or cassette to CD).
Now I have a program on my computer (I can't remember the name; I'm not on my home computer now) which is a lot faster and convenient than my external one. It has a feature that lets you normalize the audio, meaning that basically the peaks of all the songs will be at equal volume, so that the track volumes will be more consistent (maybe not perfectly equal, but close). The default setting is at 90%. What exactly does this mean? Is it better if I change it to 100%? Will the actual quality of the track change?
Thanks for reading my long post, and any help would be greatly appreciated.
Peace,
Fro
My question is, how does one do this in the easiest and most efficient manner? My external burner (which I got when they first started coming out) does not let you do it if you're burning from one of the drives, but you can record it analog through wires from a seperate source. I used to do that, but that got cumbersome, and you had to play around and test the volume before you recorded. It was also a pain to hook up different devices. (I basically only use that burner now if I'm burning audio from other formats like DVDs, vinyl, or cassette to CD).
Now I have a program on my computer (I can't remember the name; I'm not on my home computer now) which is a lot faster and convenient than my external one. It has a feature that lets you normalize the audio, meaning that basically the peaks of all the songs will be at equal volume, so that the track volumes will be more consistent (maybe not perfectly equal, but close). The default setting is at 90%. What exactly does this mean? Is it better if I change it to 100%? Will the actual quality of the track change?
Thanks for reading my long post, and any help would be greatly appreciated.
Peace,
Fro
