Conquests of the Longbow

[Alistair]

IIRC.. they were all too quiet. Like; they'd been recorded but not amplified. "St mary's Abbey" is a good example..

- Alistair

[Zemus]

That's what we have amplifiers for.
I recorded the entire MIDI in one wave so I had to make sure nothing would play so loud that it created clipping. I'm not a big fan of normalizing stuff after recording as it makes soft pieces sound very loud compared to the more loud pieces.

[Fancia]

I recorded the entire MIDI in one wave so I had to make sure nothing would play so loud that it created clipping. I'm not a big fan of normalizing stuff after recording as it makes soft pieces sound very loud compared to the more loud pieces.

If you normalize the entire soundtrack as one .wav file, however, it should apply the same amplification to the entire soundtrack, ensuring that the volume levels are the way they should be across the whole thing. That's what I usually do when I'm recording soundtracks for my own use.

[Tom]

I'm not a fan of normalization, either.  I won't use it except for voice recording.  Normalizing often loses the nuances the composer created.  Some things are meant to be very quiet for effect.  As long as noise isn't an issue, I think Zemus' recording method is the best way to record a "soundtrack"...everything is relative to the way the music was composed and presented in the game.

[Alistair]

That's what we have amplifiers for.  
I recorded the entire MIDI in one wave so I had to make sure nothing would play so loud that it created clipping. I'm not a big fan of normalizing stuff after recording as it makes soft pieces sound very loud compared to the more loud pieces.

Instead; it's so damned quiet I always have to turn the volume up psychotically loud to just hear it. Could barely hear the Abbey track with my speakers all the way up..

- Alistair

[gortmertl0]

That's what we have amplifiers for.
I recorded the entire MIDI in one wave so I had to make sure nothing would play so loud that it created clipping. I'm not a big fan of normalizing stuff after recording as it makes soft pieces sound very loud compared to the more loud pieces.

I read that when chosing the musical selections for for Fantasia, Walt Disney and Leopold Stokowsky listened to days and weeks worth of music.

Walt had the bad habit of turning up the volume on the low, quiet sections and lowering the volume on the loud sections.

Finally after a while of this, Leopold sternly admonished him, "The parts that are quiet are SUPPOSED to be quiet, and the parts that are loud are SUPPOSED to be loud."

Uncle Walt left the volume alone after that...


Gary