Originally Posted By: Guitarhacker
As far as final volume levels..... are you exporting it to a third party AUDIO EDITOR such as WAVEPAD ? http://www.nch.com.au/wavepad/index.html

If not, you really should add that step to the process. In the editor you can trim the start and end, convert to MP3 from WAVE.... and you should ALWAYS export in WAVE.....plus, you can run a NORMALIZE function on the wave before you convert it to MP3. Normalizing will generally add a few db increase of volume to a file.... I use it on all my tunes as the final step before converting or saving the wave.

For live performance always try to use WAVE files not MP3 except as a last resort when you can not get the wave.

No. I was simply exporting the finished songs from BIAB as an mp3 to my desktop and from there moving it to where I wanted it. Ultimately I will be burning the songs to CD and also synching them to my Zune. But I still don't know yet if I want to go the CD route or Zune route for playback but, I'm old, and I think I'll feel safer having a disk. But BOTH is good in case something happens to one of the devices.

Anyhow, I have downloaded that program and will get into it at a not too distant later date. However, I've decided, for now, I'm gonna leave well enough alone with the BIAB songs and just get my final setlist together for the Christmas time playing.

Oh, I could do the WAV thing but I'm fairly sure my playback devices can't read WAV files. But this is a start. Although I used to play in bands this will be the first time I have done something like this. Okay, I've done karaoke but nothing like having pro tracks backing me up while I play and sing to them. Improving on the quality of the BIAB stuff can be a think down the road. Right now I'd better concentrate on my playing and singing.

cheers