Emmett Andrews
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3.0 can only use ONE device at a time…It is a limitation of ASIO. Using a WDM to ASIO wrapper, it MIGHT be possible to use more than one device, but I doubt it…It’s just a simple limitation of ASIO. Versions 1.5 and earlier will, however, allow for more than one device. 2.0 and newer require a multi-channel interface.
Emmett
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It’s an exact digital copy. What you see is the way it is on the CD. Commercial recordings are frequently clipped during the mastering stage (a gripe of many musicians).
Emmett
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Dither. Audition mixes in 32-bit FP…It does NOT mix in an integer format, regardless of settings. The engine simply doesn’t work that way. Most likely, reason is also dithering to 16-bit prior to export. If you are mixing down to 16-bit, the file must either be dithered or truncated. My suggestion would be to switch your mixdowns to 32-bit. See if the problem goes away. This sounds like a type 2 dither issue…Or possibly quantization noise. Do the mixdown first in 32-bit, then convert and dither and choose your dither carefully. I much prefer Mbit+ dither to Audition’s built-in dither, which is pretty typical, just not as nice as Mbit+.
Dynamics processing done incorrectly can also cause this issue.
Emmett
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Short answer: Can’t be done. Long answer: You might have some LIMITED success by messing around with a noise gate or expander, but don’t expect much. A smarter idea would be to add reverb to the bar recording to make it match the hall recording.
Emmett
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Yes, there is money to be made, but before you can make money, you’ll need to learn A LOT…For instance, the difference between editing and mixing, as it seems you’re confusing the terms. The job market is not an easy one, especially for full-time work. But if you learn your craft, you can make some nice cash on the side.
In the meantime, stick to Audacity. Audition won’t do much for you until you’ve mastered Audacity and find what is lacking. Audition is a great choice for radio production and home music production, but I don’t really suggest it for those trying to make a living producing music. Most people prefer Pro Tools for that job…I personally prefer Nuendo. I’ve produced CDs for release on Audition and I can’t imagine even attempting to do a commercial release on Audacity. But as I said, until you reach the limits of Audacity, Audition would be a waste of time and money.
Emmett
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There are several ways to calculate.
Everything you need to know is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_Mean_Square
I should clarify….Audition’s VISUAL meters are peak meters…They measure the absolute peaks and vallies. RMS meters, common in analog equipment, measure average level or RMS. Audition can calculate RMS for a file or segment of a file, but Audition’s display will only show peaks.
For a more true representation of percieved loudness, we measure RMS A-weighted (called the equal loudness contour), which essentially means mid frequencies have higher value than very low and high frequencies, so loudness is determained by power, time and frequency, whereas true RMS measures only power over time.
Emmett
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The short answer is ‘no.’ Sorry.
Emmett
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The scale (digital full-scale or dBFS) ranges up to 0dB. For a 16-bit file, the range is -96dB to 0 dB with 0 being the loudest and -96dB being the softest. 24-bit ranges from -144dB to 0 dB. Peaks can go all the way up to, but not exceed 0db. The closer to 0, the louder the file, but you would never have a file that is 0dB RMS, as it wouldn’t sound like anything. Most commercial CDs fall between -10 and -15dB RMS. Mastering engineers use compression and brickwall limiting to raise the RMS level without allowing peaks to exceed 0dB.
Emmett
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Root x Mean ^2 (root mean squared). It’s the average level. Audition’s meters are peak meters. Normal analog meters are RMS meters and their behavior most closely resembles human hearing of levels. There are a few manufacturers that make meters specifically for measuring percieved loudness, but they’re very expensive and not *much* different than RMS.
Emmett
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You can try a noise gate/expander for this…Or spectral editing with the marquee tool. Neither will produce perfect results, but you may be able to get somewhere with them.
Emmett