Re: [SoX-users] Mixing in a repeating track into a song

[Wojciech K. <web...@wo...>]

   Ok, so I made all the changes you suggested (some work still in 
progress) and only one issue remains:

> Mixing will reduce the volume of the track, this can be constrained to just
> the points during which the lector is active by using compand with sox -m.
> 
> Might be more trouble than it's worth, but you could use something along the
> following lines:
> play -m input.au 5min-lector.au compand 0.2,.2 6:-70,-60,-20 -8 -90 0.1

   We will be selling music of all genres, but the vast majority (at 
least in the first months) will be really heavy stuff - think 
black/death metal. So loud, intense music. The bands probably won't be 
thrilled about the loss of volume (can anything be done about this ?), 
but the bigger issue is the audibility of the lector. When I generated 
the mix for a quiet jazz piece, the lector was almost loud enough, but 
when I tried a death metal track - the lector was practically lost in 
the noise ;]
   The compander did increase the overall volume of the mix, but the 
lector audibility didn't really change as far as I can tell (*). Is 
there anything that can be done about this ? I wouldn't mind if the 
original song's volume was decreased while the lector is speaking.
   I'm also wondering if the use of the compander is a serious enough 
alteration, that the bands could argue I'm modifying they're sound too 
much. Hopefully not..

cheers,
Wojtek


(*) The length of the lector track and the padding around it doesn't 
matter here, right ?