Normalizing Audio Levels using RMS

[Brian David]

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Gustin Johnson <gustin at echostar.ca> wrote:

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> Viktor Mastoridis wrote:
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> > Hi Linux Audio Geeks
> >
> > In my musical prehistory, while I was on Windows, I used to use a
> > program called SoundForge that had one very useful feature: normalizing
> > audio levels with RMS, even using the Equal Loudness Contour
> >
> > For a whole year I am struggling now to find something similar on Linux,
> > without much success.
> >
> > Any help/hints will be much appreciated.
> >
> There are a number of applications that can normalize audio.  From the
> command line the lame mp3 encoder can increase the gain and do some
> basic EQ tweaking.  mencoder is another command line option.
> normalize-audio is yet another command line tool for this job.
>
> On the GUI front audacity is the application that most closely resembles
> sound forge.  Under the "Effect"  menu is a normalize option.
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> It should also be noted that audacity will run under Windows as well.
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I believe Ardour can normalize audio, as well.


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-Brian David
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