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I am working on a project that involves using a lot of found audio clips (some new, some very old archival and poor quality etc).

I am trying to figure out a way to have all audio clips to be of a similar quality (if this is possible) and play at a similar volume?

I have use of both audacity and ableton...any suggestions would be great.

heroZero
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What you are asking for is commonly called normalization. There are several tools that can do it, including commandline tools and also audacity.

You'll find the tool in audacity under Effect > Normalize...

You can select multiple audio tracks.

Wolfgang Brehm
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  • Thanks Lykos...I'll give this a try. Just to be clear if I have two different audio tracks (mp3) of different quality and volumes, if I put to them together into a new track and apply normalize effect, I can have them play at same level? – heroZero Jan 17 '20 at 22:34
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    @heroZero I suppose, I have never used audacity for normalization though. https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/normalize.html says it should work like that. – Wolfgang Brehm Jan 17 '20 at 22:37
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You could also consider using a limiter and/or a compressor on your track. Have a look in the Live effect reference for more info on these: https://www.ableton.com/en/manual/live-audio-effect-reference/

The results will not be as good as applying normalization by hand, but it will be a lot quicker.

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