2. digital
  3. 1199197379

DIY CD Compression?

When we take long road trips, I like to load up my cars CD changer with classical music. On the pieces with more dynamic range, it is impossible to hear the quiet passages without cranking up the volume to the point that the loud ones are deafening.

I usually rip copies of my CD's to prevent damage to the originals in the car. So it maybe it would not be too much trouble to take an extra step or two to process the files to limit the dynamic range before I burn the copies.

Can anyone suggest a program that would allow me to do this?

Ken
kenyonbm

Showing 1 response by mlsstl

mlsstl
1,452 posts
 
Adobe Audition will let you "normalize" tracks, do peak limiting, adjust volume levels, do dynamics processing and other such goodies. Pro Tools and probably some other programs will also do this.

You'd have to rip the tracks from the original CD, open the program and then choose what processing you wish, then save the processed track to the hard drive. Then you'd burn the new CD from the processed tracks.

Not sure if what you want is worth all that work, but it can be done.
More to discover