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Normalise / Gain Boosting entire collection?

ceedee 4:33 PM - 1 February, 2007
OK so I've imported my itunes library and other various MP3's on my laptop into Serato. I've built the overviews but what I have noticed is that the volume of one MP3 can vary greatly from another. I know I can adjust the gain on each while they're playing but I don't want to have to do that so is there any way anyone has come across that will allow me to make each mp3 roughly the same volume so I don't have to mess with the gain to match two up?

Probably a daft question but I can't find any way to do it in a batch.
Monk-A 4:35 PM - 1 February, 2007
Auto Gain. Version 1.7 or 1.7.1 beta if your feeling brave.
ceedee 4:39 PM - 1 February, 2007
Ah thanks a lot, not tried 1.7 yet - will get on it :)
AFR33K1000 4:43 PM - 1 February, 2007
It's still in Beta, so I'd suggest doing just a few "sample test files" just to be sure you're happy with the end results......Auto gain analysis can take a long time on a large library, and even long undoing it if you're not happy with the results.
Konix 4:49 PM - 1 February, 2007
Don't use 1.7, use the latest 1.7.1 RC2 version, the auto gain has been improved.
ceedee 5:40 PM - 1 February, 2007
Thanks guys, I've just upgraded to 1.7.1 RC2 and have started the overviews rebuilding with gain enabled. Will see how it goes - the few I tested it on seemed okay so it's doing the whole lot now :)
nik39 9:06 PM - 1 February, 2007
Quote:
Auto gain analysis can take a long time on a large library, and even long undoing it if you're not happy with the results.

Not true, matter of fact the overview building process takes a lot of time, the added autogain doesnt take much of time. And undoing is quite fast and easy now.
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Bill M 9:43 PM - 1 February, 2007
Yes. please use the autogain in 1.7.1 RC2 as it has been vastly improved.

Also, just to note, Autogain in SSL does not normalize the actual mp3s, rather it simply adjust the gain for each file when it is loaded into a deck. The mp3 data is not effected. If you want to actually normalize the files, use mp3 gain or another such program.
ceedee 12:13 AM - 2 February, 2007
Bill this is a great feature, thanks very much for adding it in. Immensely better than using 1.6.3 and trying to adjust the gain manually.

Hats off to the Serato gang for a great piece of kit!