![]() Rather than slamming the entire track with more peak limiting, level automation before the final limiter can be really helpful. I usually dial things in based on the loudest sections of each song but sometimes a mix might be too dynamic and the front portion feels too quiet. It’s not so much of a volume drop, as a level increase to the front portion of a song. I’ve read (and noticed) that small volume drops over long durations aren’t perceivable, but thats the best guess I have… maybe to make each track punch in harder from the previous. If you dont mind me asking, whats the rationale behind this? ![]() I noticed that on one of the screen shots you have a volume automation on each track dropping what im guessing is 3db over the duration of each track. Thanks for taking the time to explain all this and offer your presets. Hey Justin, this thread has been immensely helpful. If I have time later today I can see if there are any major limitations here in WaveLab Elements but in WaveLab Pro it is amazing, and something I do many times per day and a big part of why I use WaveLab. Then you can also render WAV and/or mp3 files of each CD Track from the montage and if the metadata preset is loaded in the montage as I mentioned before, the files will contain metadata that is transposed from CD-Text and other info in the montage. In WaveLab Pro, this is where you would add the track markers but it’s my understanding that WaveLab Elements doesn’t do CD track markers, and they are just based off of the clip lengths.Īnyway, this is now a good time to add the CD-Text info which can be album title, track titles, album artist, track artist (if different than album artist), songwriter, composer, arranger, message, disc ID, ISRC, and UPC.įrom here you can burn a CD, or render a DDP if using WaveLab Pro. You assemble the files how you want them arranged in the montage, including the track spacing. With the workflow I mentioned, you should never have to use the audio file editor section, everything is done in the montage. So, WaveLab might say a track is 3min 4sec and 621ms but iTunes might round up and call that 3:05.Įither way, the only way I know how to submit CD info to Gracenote is to burn a CD, and use iTunes or the Gracenote Partner app to send a fingerprint of the CD info to them, and in this case, you don’t enter the track lengths, the track lengths are automatically populated from what the software sees on the CD. The only time I can think of when you might see a difference is that Apple/iTunes tends to round up. Maybe somebody who has used Elements more can weigh in. Elements just makes the CD tracks based on the clip lengths. What (I think) I do know about Elements is that you can’t have track markers and move them around as you wish like you can in WaveLab Pro. The track lengths in the montage should match exactly on the CD so either something is wrong, or you may be looking something wrong. Any thought on what is the correct track length to use for registering the songs on Gracenote etc? One thing I noticed is that the track lengths in the Montage in Wavelab differ from the track length that appears on the CD (even allowing for the gaps inserted in Wavelab). Here is my montage metadata preset you can (try to) use to get started: Dropbox JP Start.dat I would say ID3v2 is the most common metadata area to use, but my preset also fills in ID3v1, and the AXML chunk for adding the ISRC code to WAV files via the EBU recommendation. Metadata supports more things than CD-Text so you can also add things like track number/track total, the artwork, and a lot more. You can then use the metadata tab in the montage to help transpose that CD-Text into metadata automatically when you render WAV or mp3 files. So that would be album title, track titles, album artist, track artist (if different than album artist), songwriter, composer, arranger, message, disc ID, ISRC, and UPC. I don’t know the limitations of WaveLab Elements but the way it works in WaveLab Pro is this:Īdd the CD-Text info and it will be present when you burn a CD, or if you made a DDP but Elements doesn’t support DDP unfortunately.
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