pablolie
2016-11-10 23:23:47 UTC
I was curious if any of you manipulate gain parameters to keep loudness
levels even across your music library, or not, and just live with stuff
the way it is.
Personally, I leave classical music alone. Most of it I have ripped with
dbPoweramp[1], and leave it alone.
With jazz, I could live with leaving it alone, but I have played around
with MP3Gain and some other tools to manage levels across playlists.
With popular music like R&B and salsa - it wouldn't be much of a problem
if you acquired the CDs in the same decade they were produced, I think.
But start mixing things up, and playlists become very uneven[2]. Hence
I have used MP3Gain on an album by album basis, although my library
(wihich is very large) is quite inconsistent.
So I wonder if anyone uses a tool that evens out levels library-wide?
How do you handle it? Just curious.
...paul
[1] It seems to me that dbPoweramp has upped its output levels with new
versions. I have re-ripped some albums, and upon comparing my first rip
with the most recent one, there seems to be a loudness increase. I have
not dabbled with the advanced DSP parameters in dbPoweramp ever, which I
think allow for some output level settings.
[2] The particular culprit is: you have a few CDs from a certain artist
you bought back in the 80s. Now you discover that Amazon has re-issued
some albums from that artist that you missed. You buy them as an MP3
album. The loudness difference between these new ones and the original
CD rips will be brutal. That said, Amazon has done a great job of
digitizing some hard to find 80s/90s albums. In some cases, they sound
(IMHO) markedly better than the original release ADD/DDD CDs, because
some of them sounded ugh (and prolly gave digital a bad name), but yeah,
the current heavy handed approach to loudness prevails. Hence... how to
best manage?
...pablo
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levels even across your music library, or not, and just live with stuff
the way it is.
Personally, I leave classical music alone. Most of it I have ripped with
dbPoweramp[1], and leave it alone.
With jazz, I could live with leaving it alone, but I have played around
with MP3Gain and some other tools to manage levels across playlists.
With popular music like R&B and salsa - it wouldn't be much of a problem
if you acquired the CDs in the same decade they were produced, I think.
But start mixing things up, and playlists become very uneven[2]. Hence
I have used MP3Gain on an album by album basis, although my library
(wihich is very large) is quite inconsistent.
So I wonder if anyone uses a tool that evens out levels library-wide?
How do you handle it? Just curious.
...paul
[1] It seems to me that dbPoweramp has upped its output levels with new
versions. I have re-ripped some albums, and upon comparing my first rip
with the most recent one, there seems to be a loudness increase. I have
not dabbled with the advanced DSP parameters in dbPoweramp ever, which I
think allow for some output level settings.
[2] The particular culprit is: you have a few CDs from a certain artist
you bought back in the 80s. Now you discover that Amazon has re-issued
some albums from that artist that you missed. You buy them as an MP3
album. The loudness difference between these new ones and the original
CD rips will be brutal. That said, Amazon has done a great job of
digitizing some hard to find 80s/90s albums. In some cases, they sound
(IMHO) markedly better than the original release ADD/DDD CDs, because
some of them sounded ugh (and prolly gave digital a bad name), but yeah,
the current heavy handed approach to loudness prevails. Hence... how to
best manage?
...pablo
Server: Virtual Machine (on VMware Workstation 12) running Ubuntu 16.04
+ LMS 7.9
System: SB Touch --optical->- Benchmark DAC2HGC --AnalysisPlus Oval
Copper XLR->- NAD M22 Power Amp --AnalysisPlus Black Mesh Oval->- Totem
Element Fire
Other Rooms: 2x SB Boom; 1x SB Radio; 1x SB Classic-> NAD D7050 -> Totem
DreamCatcher + Velodyne Minivee Sub
Computer audio: workstation --USB->- audioengine D1 -> Grado
PS500e/Shure 1540
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