I've been playing with Replay Gain (RG) today. The idea is great. I've struggled over the years to get the level right between tracks on compilations, I've gotten pretty good at it using Goldwave, but not perfect. I want perfect....
Some albums are hot and others very low in level, something to fix the difference would be great. Replay Gain looks at each track and determines an adjustment PER SONG. That is not right. The levels between tracks on the same albums should never be changed relative to each other. Replay Gain adjusts different tracks differently on tracks from the same album.
There needs to be a way to select a number of tracks and have it analyze those tracks as a unit and apply one adjustment for the whole track set.
I think I can do this manaully by adjusting the tags to one adjustment level for a whole album, but that is quite tedious.
And it seems Replay Gain never applies more gain to a track, it only lowers the gain. Meaning that the output from MC is always lower than any other input to my audio system. My preamp will let me adjust each input differently, so I could equalize levels between the FM tuner and MC with Replay Gain, but then when I turn Replay Gain off, MC blasts compared to the tuner.
Is there a way to set the base level for Replay Gain? Something to fix the huge difference in level between Replay Gain and no Replay Gain is needed.
How do others deal with this level difference?
How do others deal with the difference adjustment it makes between tracks on the same album?