Audio Engineering

[captnjeter]

I like how Adobe and Sony normalize the sound better. Audacity, if I recall, just max-es out the sound. I've done my best to forget about Audacity, but that's probably because I wasn't taught on that software.

Even Audition is week in normalizing (which I use the most in the production work I do) and I've had to improvise on making edits with it. Sound Forge is the best I've used, hands down, but I can't seem to get a copy of it. It's not great for multi-track work, but everything from normalizing and sound altering with WaveHammer is just so much easier than it is with anything else I've used. But again, it's impossible to use it for multi-track editing which makes Audition more useful sometimes.

[Crono]

Yeah see, I've only done multitrack work.

I am familiar with sound forge, but unless they significantly improved it, the distortions were too great, and the normalization was standard. I had better luck with Audacity, but that's just me.

Plus, Audacity is free.

[VcElder]

Ive got both, I will mess around with them.

[keyser28146]

I use Adobe CS3 MC, and haven't used soundbooth at all. I think you will find that just starting a new project in Premiere, then importing your sound as an asset and looking through the effects there will give you a TON of options and make editing things together a snap, not to mention you can simply choose "file, export, audio" and put it in whatever format you like to have it spit out any file you want.

[VcElder]

Aye, its a whole new profession...it is a little overwhelming. I am tempted to start throwing cash at my problem. Kids in college will work for beans.