Irony? A BE AudioVAULT question today....

[mbrg]

AudioVAULT is going into our stations. We propose to do everything No Compression (WAV) and I need some direction re; recording/ripping levels. A newly purchased (by us) TMCentury music library (modern Country) was send straight to Quincy and BE loaded it. Thats fine and we have the original External Drive from TMC. Now we want to load (i.e. rip) another music library (CHR) ourselves. We have a decade of discs in house (also from TMC).
Heres my issue; the levels on the newly purchased library are much lower (about -5 to -3 db) than the ripped titles. We tested several of the in house CHR discs, and they all are mastered louder than the country. Aside from the fact CHR titles are generally more compressed than even the fastest-uptempo-modern country artists stuff, I'm simply wondering if should we reference that brand new Country library for levels? I can normalize in ripping those CHR discs down so they are comparable to the country.

This will also be the first time our production people will transfer (import) from Adobe to the automation (before it was in real time, thru a console, and we could adjust the level).

As a jock put it to me; "how should our Cool Edit waves look, green all the way to the top or somewhere in the middle?"

Thanks all,,,

......happy with BE from Spotmaster to AVault

 

[OttoM]

Since you already have a "standard" in place (the TM library) the best thing to do is adhere to that standard when ripping the CHR library.