Much better!
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And it sounds better too!
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@Karol What does it sound like
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@Duchess At first, a fine song with fair amounts of clipping until further tries were made for a much better audio export. What basically happened was that the loudness normalizer (courtesy of the Audacity program) while normalizing the audio to perceivable loudness, the technological audio levels were also brought up. The over-gained normalized audio eventually maxed out the technological levels, leading to a clipping sound often described as “clipping”. To solve this, the original source audio file was used to reproduce a new loudness normalized audio with a different set of options. The first round loudness normalized by perceived loudness to -9 LUFS; unfortunately this just about destroyed the dynamics of the original raw audio with considerably heavy clipping. The second round loudness normalized by RMS to -15dB; fortunately dynamic range was preserved, but there were parts of noticeable (but not obtrusive) clipping. Not too bad considering that the ReplayGain tool as suggested from that one mixing and mastering book couldn’t be found online. Which has me to wonder, there has to be a better way to easily loudness normalize audio across an album without destroying the audible qualities.
TL/DR: Imagine comparing two audio files of the same song: One has noticeable distortion while the other sounds about fine. Which one would you choose?
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@Karol Uhhhh, the bottom maybe is the distorted one?
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@Duchess Actually, it’s the same part of the clip but in two different programs. This post has the distorted one: https://mpp.community/forum/topic/51855/this-is-horror/1
