Advanced Special Effects

 

Menu Path: Options/Settings/Recorder/Advanced

Fade In / Fade Out

Go to Options/Settings/Recorder, and click the Advanced button.

For smoother more professional results in your recording, try fading into and out of tracks.

The fade in/out will be recorded into the music (mp3, wav, or Window Media) file, therefore you may want to adjust the fade levels from track to track. Also, make a copy of the original file in case you don't like the results.

  • In the Fade In field, type in the number of seconds you would like to fade into the track.

  • In the Fade Out field, enter the number of seconds to fade out of a track.

Fade times are measured in seconds, so as an example; if you enter in a fade in time of five seconds, the start of the song will go from no sound to full sound in five seconds. Compensate for songs that start or end quickly.

Note: This feature is not available when using the Line-In, Mic-In or Mixer recording source.

Normalization

The volume level at which a Compact Disk is created varies from CD to CD. To help control volume differences in your recordings, use the Normalization setting to compensate for the æpeakÆ volume level from CD to CD. A setting of 100% is 'normal' and does not affect the tracks performance.

 

Example: You have two different CDs but one sounds much softer than the other as the result of the original recording process. (Lets assume they are both heavy metal CDs, and not a heavy metal and a classical CD!) To help the softer CD equal the 'volume' level of the louder CD, adjust the Normalization level up to 110%, this will increase the 'amplitude' of the softer tracks, thus increasing the volume level.

You will have to test this on each track and listen to the results to determine what works best for you. Increasing Normalization over 100% may cause some distortion, depending on the specific track.

Normalization only applies to the track you are currently recording. Normalizing one track does not apply this new setting to previously recorded tracks.

Track Offset

When recording a track, recording will start where the track data starts, however that is not always where the music starts. Because of this (especially when using the Normalization setting), there might be noises like pops, or clicks before the music even starts, or just too much 'dead' time, taking up valuable hard drive space.

To help control this use Track Offset to advance the record start time slightly. Enter in the number of seconds to advance the recording process.

Since Track Offset is measured in seconds it will affect the length of the recorded track.