Re: [RDD] re-normalize a batch of carts?

2018-11-04 Thread Gregory Avedissian
On 11/1/18, Fred Gleason wrote: > On Oct 31, 2018, at 15:43, Gregory Avedissian wrote: > >> Is it safe to do something as simple as having the script go to /var/snd >> and run: >> for i in *.wav ; do sox --norm=-5 "$i" /tmp/"$i" && cp /tmp/"$i" "$i" ; >> done >> >> Oh yeah, there will be rm

Re: [RDD] re-normalize a batch of carts?

2018-11-02 Thread Marius Wikstøl
There's a project called bs1770gain which normalizes audio to a set lufs, loudness. Marius On 11/2/18 4:27 PM, Andy Higginson wrote: I seem to remember some discussion on using EBU R128 loudness measuring for normalization of audio.  It was mentioned a couple of years ago and I think someone

Re: [RDD] re-normalize a batch of carts?

2018-11-02 Thread Andy Higginson
I seem to remember some discussion on using EBU R128 loudness measuring for normalization of audio.  It was mentioned a couple of years ago and I think someone on this list had found some open source code to enable this monitoring.  Has anything further happened on this? On Thu, 01 Nov

Re: [RDD] re-normalize a batch of carts?

2018-11-01 Thread Fred Gleason
On Nov 1, 2018, at 10:56, Rob Landry <41001...@interpring.com> wrote: > My understanding of "normalize" is that it means multiplying every sample in > a file by some coefficient calculated to set the largest sample in the file, > i.e. the peak amplitude, to a specific point, such as -13 dBfs. >

Re: [RDD] re-normalize a batch of carts?

2018-11-01 Thread Cowboy
On Thu, 1 Nov 2018 11:06:31 +1300 Robert Jeffares wrote: > In digital audio, overshoots cause lots of instant distortion. Almost right. "Overshoot" has a specific technical meaning, ( involving bass ) and isn't as intuitive as one might think, but I think I know what you mean. In analog

Re: [RDD] re-normalize a batch of carts?

2018-11-01 Thread Cowboy
On Thu, 1 Nov 2018 07:45:26 -0400 Fred Gleason wrote: > and rewriting audio can cause quality degradation (especially if MPEG Layer > II format is > involved). Can cause ? I would argue that rewriting audio in any format other than what it already is, absolutely *will* cause some degree of

Re: [RDD] re-normalize a batch of carts?

2018-11-01 Thread Rob Landry
My understanding of "normalize" is that it means multiplying every sample in a file by some coefficient calculated to set the largest sample in the file, i.e. the peak amplitude, to a specific point, such as -13 dBfs. However, lately I've seen "normalize" used to mean adjusting the *average*

Re: [RDD] re-normalize a batch of carts?

2018-11-01 Thread Fred Gleason
On Oct 31, 2018, at 15:43, Gregory Avedissian wrote: > Is it safe to do something as simple as having the script go to /var/snd > and run: > for i in *.wav ; do sox --norm=-5 "$i" /tmp/"$i" && cp /tmp/"$i" "$i" ; done > > Oh yeah, there will be rm /tmp/"$i" in there, too. Just noticed that. >

Re: [RDD] re-normalize a batch of carts?

2018-10-31 Thread Robert Jeffares
Gregory, it will work in that your /var/snd/ files will all be normalised by sox to -5. However the -13 level is a better option than bumping the audio file level up. For a number of reasons the -13 level was chosen to allow 'headroom' for the bits of audio that overshoot 0vu. In digital

[RDD] re-normalize a batch of carts?

2018-10-31 Thread Gregory Avedissian
We've had a problem with broadcast volume levels, and we've settled on using a normalization level of -5 when importing into the library. The engineer has tweaked the transmission as best he can without bothering the nearby airport. There are still a bunch of carts that were imported at -13.