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Do your normalize your samples?
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Permalink Reply by DJ Darkside on -
I only normalize when I cant really bring the signal up any more from the source... Some time I normalize when I my signal is a bit hot.... Just try get a good signal in and you wont need normalize,
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Permalink Reply by Ilogic Chop on -
I normalize when i drag and drop on logic to the mix
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Permalink Reply by saintjoe on -
cool just wondering, I've heard some say they do and some don't, I've personally never been a fan but sometimes you may need it
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Permalink Reply by DJ Rock Well on -
I only hit normalize when one sample in a project is dramatically quieter than all the rest and so far I've found the results to be very good. So much so that I've been using maschine to record all my old records for my recently purchased traktor scratch - I've got logic 8 pro but it feels like hard work for a simple task and even though traktor records internally everything comes out half the volume of downloaded and imported tracks which is irritating when mixing. With maschine it's just record, normalize and export project with samples to desktop - perfect every time!
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Permalink Reply by alphabet4 on -
Nah, not a fan of it in general. I used it on the 2500 and it would overpower everything else in the mix and I end up going back and forth raising the level of this lowering the level of that. It's not nearly as bad on the maschine, but I find, as do others obviously, that its best to get a good signal when you record it initially.
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Permalink Reply by El Pimpo on -
for the record,
Whilst MAKING samples, Normalizing is one of the last steps in processing a sound. You need to make the sound as even and clear as possible, and normalizing always fits that bill. Unlike tracking where you dont want to go above -18dbfs; Samples (when being made) have to be LOUD.
So most samples are already amped up by the time it hits your hard or soft sampler.
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Permalink Reply by Hi.Moez on -
Sorry el pimpo, but if you are creating a drum kit, you don't want to have the hat at the same level the snare is... especially if you have recorded intimate and delicate percussion.
You can tell me that I must try to decrease the volume on the sound cell in my sampler... But still I found that those normalized sounds were too loud and pumping. (specially when I use the MPC for normalizing...)
And the most important... Why should I normalize a sound for lowering the volume immediately on my sampler?
For professional and comercial libraries I suggest you to normalize (It's just a way to standarize sounds and make them more marketable...When searching for sounds people appreciate to hear all the samples at the same volume)
But for personal use, I only normalize if really needed...
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Permalink Reply by Hi.Moez on
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in fact, Tonehammer is one of my favourite sound samples companies...
if you listen carefully to the samples contained on those libraries (or load them on a secuencer) you would find normalized sounds and not normalized sounds....
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Permalink Reply by dazastah on -
I normalise when the source has loud percussive bits and soft percussive bits, and i want to ave more headroom for the soft percussive bits(separately chopped) .. Usually though i like thrashing the tube pres.. :) my turntable goes into a djmixer then into some tube pre amps(which i run hot to add that nice airy gritty crunch) which then goes into the interface..
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