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    Do you guys normalize all your tracks before you load them into your libraries?

    I'm finding it quite time consuming, and I don't know if it's really worth it. I've been using Audacity to do it. Songs don't seem to vary all too much, and it could just be fixed with a slight turn of the gain knob.

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    http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/

    completely non destructive to your tracks. analyse everything, set to around 94-96 db, and turn that bloody autogain off
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    Awesome Jester! Thanks a ton! I was actually manually adjusting gain lol, not even auto gain :P

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    i've used this one for years. i use 94db (ean suggests 96)... if you run the whole collection through just analyze, and choose the "track gain" option. you will still need to tweak the gains but no where near as much.
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    Unfortunately my library is much too large and has tons of songs from other genres (that I will never play. I love me some Mumford and Sons but that's not exactly a crowd pumper :P). Gonna have to let my computer analyze the tracks overnight and then adjust the gains tomorrow morning!

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    yep, good idea. hit us up if you have any questions.
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    I'm all for mp3gain. I use it on all my DJ tracks.
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    How would this work with tracks that Traktor has already analyzed and set the autogain too? Would I need to delete them from my collection and reimport?

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    turn the autogain off.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jester View Post
    turn the autogain off.
    Thanks!

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