Is there a way to adjust to high and low volume limits on a flac file

[airtime]

I finally got the EAC to cooperate and have been ripping FLAC files to a thumb drive.

I listen to classical music and own a number of CDs from Classic FM 100 London. However it seems their engineer likes to record their CDs with extreme lows and highs. I mean it's like taking a hearing test on one passage and the windows are shaking a few bars later.

Is there a way to adjust the volume on both ends of the rip process? Or some retooling of the file?

 

[dr*audio]

You could use Audacity to put some compression on the audio.

 

[jwest1197]

I typically wouldn't consider high dynamic range to be an issue in the home. I'd only consider this to be an issue in the car. You could buy a separate compressor from guitar center for the home and route it through the tape monitors on a reciever, you could do what dr audio said, or if you just need it in the car, Kicker makes an amplifier with a built in DSP that has a compressor available to you.

 

[dr*audio]

I typically wouldn't consider high dynamic range to be an issue in the home. I'd only consider this to be an issue in the car. You could buy a separate compressor from guitar center for the home and route it through the tape monitors on a reciever, you could do what dr audio said, or if you just need it in the car, Kicker makes an amplifier with a built in DSP that has a compressor available to you.

A DBX 118 would sound very good. If you look at GC, look for a compressor made for recording.

 

[KrisM]

I'm pretty sure EAC has a normalize option that can be tweaked. Not sure if it would help here, or if it's just for comp type rips, but it might be worth looking into.

 

[mars_volta]

Compression.

 

[E-Stat]

First time I've heard someone complain about music with wide dynamic range. It's the musicians who are determining relative levels.