Sony Sound Forge 8 With DJ Puzzle
Gearwire joins Jason Donnelly, also known as DJ Puzzle, in front of his Sony Sound Forge 8 station. Jason walks us through some simple mastering by normalizing the file.
DJ Puzzle shows us how to add a bit of power to the file and explains the benefits and risks of maximizing in this screencast. Keep an eye out for more computer music tricks from DJ Puzzle on Gearwire.com.
JASON DONNELLY: Next I'm going to open the file that we just created in Sound Forge 8 and do a little mastering. Now in this case I'm going to keep it simple. Basically, what I want to do is normalize the file so that it's at its maximum volume, the Big Nasty Trance Pad. Select on normalize, maximum peak value, click OK, and boom.
Now I want to add a little oomph to it so I'll use the Sony Wave Hammer which is a max, you know, sort of a limiter/maximizer, and I'll adjust to the, level to adjust about there. You don't want to overdo this because it'll squash the sound and you'll lose dynamic. It'll also like bring unwanted sounds up, sounds that you didn't even know existed deep within that files such as effects or what not.
Okay. So that's it, the Big Nasty Trance Pad, save it back down, boom, yes, and we are done. We have a loop.
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