MP3 Gain Settings

Would anyone care to share your settings?

95dB works well with pro gear. It will make your VU meters tickle the 0dB mark which is perfect.

What about other settings within the menu? Any other options enabled/disabled?

Follow this guide, mine is set the same:

http://www.mixingonbeat.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=158&highlight=mp3gain

Thanks Steve, but I don't feel like joining another chat just to get some settings. I appreciate the link.

I didn't realize you had to join, I thought the link would work. Let me check it out and get back to you.

First: Set to 95db

Options, check all 3 of the following:
Add Sub Folders
No check for Layer I or II
Minimize to tray

Advanced Options, check: Idle

That's it buddy!

Steve,

If I remember correctly, you rip with Audiograbber and normalize each track at98. Do you then run the track through MP3Gain at 95?

Booch

Wow, what a memory... I no longer normalize because I found out about MP3Gain. I believe normalizing while a WAVE file then encoding to MP3 is OK, that's what AudioGrabber does, while normalizing an actual MP3 file is no good.

Besides, I like being Abby Normal... :)

I tried MP3Gain and didn't like it too much... while it doesn't actually modify the MP3 it writes a gain setting to the tag that programs such as Winamp picks up on... I still prefer to use Audiograber to normalize but I use average percent over peak normalization along with compression.... this seems to yeild great sounding mp3's in the end and I'm not running to my sliders to adjust music all the time....

I normally use Ots anyway so no problems with their c/l alogrhytems... if I forget to use normalization ots picks up the ball for me.... I only keep straight mp3s around for that rare occasion I don't use Ots at an event.

95db for ever!

I tried MP3Gain and didn't like it too much... while it doesn't actually modify the MP3 it writes a gain setting to the tag that programs such as Winamp picks up on...

That's actually incorrect Rob, MP3Gain does modify the file.

The tag settings are used to revert back to normal, if you so choose. It's basically a key.


There's a lot of confusion about how MP3Gain works, mainly because there were a number of folks involved in the development.

I prefer to utilize the gain sliders myself, and actually be a DJ :sqbiggrin:

Then explain what this means:


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Tired of reaching for your volume knob every time your mp3 player changes to a new song?
MP3Gain analyzes and adjusts mp3 files so that they have the same volume.

MP3Gain does not just do peak normalization, as many normalizers do. Instead, it does some statistical analysis to determine how loud the file actually sounds to the human ear.
Also, the changes MP3Gain makes are completely lossless. There is no quality lost in the change because the program adjusts the mp3 file directly, without decoding and re-encoding.


If it ain't decoding and re-encoding with new gain settings how is it modifing the file... reading that would seem to indicate that it is simply writing a tag of some sort that tells your software where to set it's gain should you be using autogain controls such as what Winamp and others do.

Like I said, there's a lot of confusion... ;)


Put the file in a Hex editor, then run MP3Gain on it. Then load the new copy. You will find a different set of samples.

It modifies much more than the tag.

95 here also.

95 here as well.

While MP3gain is running, is it a big deal if there is a red Y in the clipping columns?

Nope. Carry on.

Nope. Carry on.


Really? I thought clipping was a bad thing...

If it hits 0 dB, I believe it registers as clipping on the software. The dB meter on my mixer never goes above 0dB with those settings and there is no audible distortion.

I used it only once for my mp3+g files... and really didn't like what it did after testing a few and instead went back to normalizing with audiograbber instead using the % instead of peak along with compression and have been very happy with the output. I use the default settings... btw.