Cool Edit Pro

[K.O.]

Im working on a project and i am going to record it into my mixer and everything but bein that i dont have a booth i have background sound. so what im going to do is take the background sound off of the vocals in Cool edit pro and put it back with the beat there also. what i wanted to know is how to prevent clipping or going in the red in cep.....how could i tell which track is doing the clipping or going in red and how do i reduce it.....any one with info on this it would be a big help thanks! and any other tips about CEP dealing with this matter would be of help also.

ps. another problem im going to have is getting all my songs on the same level once the cd is ready to be put together cause i dont want one loud song and one medium level. ( any tips appreciated )

oh yea and if theres a track of vocals and some parts are a lil louder than others is there a way to limit the entire track to one level

 

[Manji]

Try messing w/ your window's mixer. [your soundcard]

Turn the "line in" down when you record or else it'll record to loud and you'll go into the red area

 

[K.O.]

not recording into computer tho, recording on an external mixer and burning it to cd vocals seperate from the beat and then putting it in CEP

 

[Manji]

Oh, well then when you open your wave file (which I asume is vocals right?

Go to efects>amplitude>amplify

when you get to the amplify menu go to "constant amplification" and amplify your waveform in the negative decibles (ex: -16.83 dB) and it should lower the volume of the waveform.

Hope I helped

Illblood-

Chi town nucca

 

[K.O.]

good tip Manji thanks. any one know how i will know what volume level is the right level i need to make a song legally right for listening if that even makes sense. some songs could be recorded low and have great sound quality but when put into a radio compared to other regular cd's my songs are just as good quality but the levels are too low once everything is mixed down. is there a way to know what level the final recording should be in Cool Edit Pro??

 

[mono]

you can say it should be a little bit beneath zero in the main mix - basically - , but there are certain parts of a beat which may seem it sound louder than it "realy" is. psycho accustics.
im not sure what its called in english, but on every bigger mixer youve got two scales for loudness measuring. one measures loudness allover,the peak value. thats the one you got in your CE.
it shows the maximum value reached on the scale, by the soundcurves.
and then there is another one, the root mean square. it will tell you about the "energy" of a given signal. for example youve got a nice bassline which is not realy loud, f.e. -5 when u solo out the track, but it makes the whole thing sound fat, and turnin it up would waste the production. so, its like workin with eq's, there is no given rules of how to use em, except that you should try to keep the peak value a bit beneath 0. the rest is (pre) mastering.
but you cant imitate a masteringprocess like its used on hiteq or dre beats with our homeequipment.

what u can do is pushing up the track a bit by adding some mastering eq's, mastering compressors ( like the TC plugins series), or loudness maximizers.
but these ones, espacially the last one, are hammers. i wasted some beats completely by overusing that kind of stuff.
another plug thats realy cool is the steinberg magneto, you should try that out, it adds some analog tape feeling to your digital work and btw, pumps up the (psychoaccustic) volume as well .

thats as far with my theory
peace