dustman33 wrote: ↑September 11th, 2021, 10:24 am
Thank you Rich. I’m a newbie and still feeling my way around. I use the automated non-destructive normalizing when bouncing my tracks in Logic Pro. It has no variable for loudness but is fixed. There is a per track normalization routine as well but it is destructive so I hesitate to use it in case I get it wrong. Any suggestions?
One thing you can do is save you file just before you use a destructive routine under a different file name - then if the non-reversible change turns out to be a mistake you can go back to the previous saved version. I typically have a few versions of a chapter I'm working on from various stages of completion. It's important to have some systematic plan about what the saved files will be named so you'll be sure which version you're editing (and uploading).
Unless I misread the documentation for Logic Pro, the normalization adjusts the level of your track to put the very loudest peak at some volume. LibriVox and many others are concerned with perceived volume - sort of the average volume. Fortunately, when you find a normalization setting that works for
your voice it should work for all
your tracks. Another person's voice might have a larger or smaller peak-to-typical range and would get a different volume as measured by Checker.
