heva
16 October 2009
Hope this isn't a question being asked for the nth time (haven't found it by search yet).
I occasionally record chamberchoirs in a simple way, two mic's (either omni's n Jecklin or cardiods in ORTF/NOS) to a Fostex FR2LE (or beyer-mv100-edirol-UA1EX-linuxlaptop), mostly it's concertrecording in fairly nice sounding churches. Afterwards editing in Audacity (on linux), normalizing and cutting to make a CD.
Just wondering, what order do people here use when preparing a recording (eg. classical choir) for a CD? Like order between normalizing, cutting, EQ, compress (if any) etc.?
Comments
don't normalise ... don't normalise to 0dbFS ,,, try -1 or -05 .
don't normalise
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don't normalise to 0dbFS ,,, try -1 or -05 ... if you must normalise
compression or limiting is up to you and depens on the results you are getting from your mic positions
go to the Mastering section and read
nothing wrong with making CDroms of the recorded Audacity files for archive
then work them to an audioCD ... if you make mistakes
like TOO much compression, you can then go back to the archive CDroms
READ the BobKatz and TCaudio papers and articles