This can mean a song mastered in the past can come immediately after one done so with today’s sledgehammer subtlety (see The Loudness War). This is annoying at the best of times but extremely annoying for Group Fitness instructors. This post will hopefully help those people. There’s a lot of things to be said about iTunes. Some of them include words that aren’t four letters long. One of the more useful settings that can be located in the Preference panel is the playback option where Sound Check is turned on. This tries to get all songs to play back at the same apparent volume. Which is fine if you’re listening at home or doing a class from a laptop but not quite workable if you’re using a smaller player.įor that I recommend a product called iVolume. I have used it for a number of years and found it to work quite well. It nudges the loudness settings on songs to set them to a similar level – and retains that data when the songs are moved on to a device such as an iPhone or iPod touch. This ensures that the apparent loudness of songs from very different times sound the same. This seems to be an issue in the area of Les Mills songs where today’s digital downloads appear much quieter than the tracks on CD from a few years back. It’s something that can be disconcerting when they are placed adjacent in a mix. I have only ever used the Mac version so that’s what will be shown in the examples. #IVOLUME FOR WINDOWS WINDOWS#Ī Windows version is available and I can only assume it works in a similar manner. You’ll see an area titled ‘Groups’ on the left-hand side. If you’ve just opened it up then only the ‘Default’ group will be listed. There’s a lot more shown in the picture because I’ve added them over the years to meet the needs of the way I look at the world. Yours will probably differ significantly. Step 2 : Add GroupsĬlick the little + button at the bottom left of the Groups column to add a group. I suggest creating two – LM single and LM multiple. The idea of separate ones will become apparent later one. Hint: it’s to do with those pesky tracks that blend into each other such as the first three of BODYSTEP, the first two of BODYATTACK, and pretty much everything in the mash-it! versions of BODYJAM.Ĭlick on the LM single group to see the configuration values appearing just under the logo in the centre of the window title bar. Set them so they appear as in the picture above. This will ensure that each song in the LM single group will be adjusted so that its peak volume within the track will have the same volume as every other song in the group.
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