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Topic: FOBAR diminishes volume of wav file when converting to flac (Read 974 times) previous topic - next topic
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FOBAR diminishes volume of wav file when converting to flac

I have been digitizing my analog tape recordings by converting them to wav files - My tape recordings are compilations/mixes where every song fades into the beginning of the next, so every file is an amalgamation of many songs "fused" into one.  When I used Foobar to convert said files from wav to flac, the flac file's volume was much reduced...  Is this normal with foobar?

Re: FOBAR diminishes volume of wav file when converting to flac

Reply #1 –
Not a problem I've run into. Things in foobar2000 to check:
- ReplayGain settings
- Pre-amp gain settings
- Effects in conversion chain

Re: FOBAR diminishes volume of wav file when converting to flac

Reply #2 –
Are you playing both in foobar2000? I recall you were using Windows Media Player for the .wav's ...

Re: FOBAR diminishes volume of wav file when converting to flac

Reply #3 –
HDCD ADC in the recording chain? Try adding a tag to your source WAV file:

HDCD=no

Re: FOBAR diminishes volume of wav file when converting to flac

Reply #4 –
IIRC, the OP has digitized old tape recordings, so there should be no HDCD.

foo_bitcompare can tell whether they are actually different.

If there are differences - and, assuming foobar2000 was used for conversion:
Open a .wav file in foobar2000, right-click, Convert, "..." and then see what was there upon last conversion: anything under "Processing" or "Other"?
(This could be checked without installing foo_bitcompare as well.)

If there is any ReplayGain under "Other" in the previous step, then that is the explanation.
One can also find ReplayGain tags this way: open one of the FLAC files in foobar2000. Right-click -> Properties. Click the Details tab and see if there is any ReplayGain information.
 

Re: FOBAR diminishes volume of wav file when converting to flac

Reply #5 –
I was only suggesting it in case of the weird possibility of a Phillips ADC that encodes HDCD information, however rare that may be.