On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 10:00 -0700, Bob van der Poel wrote:
> Here's the short story of what I seem to be doing:
>
> 1. Generate tracks for a song, put them in a directory
and use audacity
> to mix.
So essentially one project per song. Sounds sensible.
> 2. Generate a mixdown. I call this "mix.wav"
for each song and store it
> in the same song directory.
An export from the per-song project to mix the tracks.
> 3. Use audacity to do a final edit on
"mix.wav". This final edit is
> really just to strip some leading metronome beats off
the start of the
> song. They are in each track and a pain to delete from
each track, so I
> leave them there. Also, if I ever decide to add or redo
a track they are
> nice to have. Cutting them off the mix track is simple.
I then save
> (export) the mix wav to my cd directory.
>
> 4. To keep the levels sane, I now use the util
normalize-audio on the
> track in the cd directory.
>
> What I'd really like to do is to not create a
"mix" track at all; just
> go right to the final in the cd directory. But I can't
resolve how to
> delete the leading junk, export, and then restore. If
one has 10 or 15
> tracks it's quite hard to do a cut/delete off the start
of all the tracks.
>
> Running normalize is not a big deal and it could be
scripted.
I'd tend to hold the job the other way up, and run one final
audacity
project as a CD master session. I'd start by importing all
the mixed
tracks into the same project. They can then be trimmed if
needed, and
sorted into order. You can use audacity's normalise to set
the peak
level of each track if needed (and do any other adjustments
so that
actually sound right, which isn't the same thing). You could
optionally
compress at this stage if you feel it is a good idea.
I would then label up the tracks (sorry, does have to be
done by hand.
I'd like to see this automated, as I've described in another
thread),
and use Export Multiple to get a set of files to burn a CD
with.
So we can tidy up the number of import/export cycles a bit,
but in the
main it's still fairly manual work. The problem with trying
to automate
the trimming step is that it's very hard for the computer to
know what
to trim off - especially if the introduction that follows
the count in
is quiet.
> Oh, one more question: are muted tracks supposed to
appear in an export?
> File->export seems to mix all the tracks, even those
muted. So, again, I
> have to remove the tracks which I have muted before the
mixdown.
This is fixed in the current CVS code. Not sure if it's in
any releases
yet, but this will be fixed in the course of time.
Richard
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So,
I'll give the muted stuff another go.
Best,
--
Bob van der Poel ** Wynndel, British Columbia, CANADA **
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