Quiet AC3...

[astrocity20]

Alright I've a DTS track that I've spit out into 6 wavs with BeSweet. Everything sounds great on those six wavs, I convert to ac3 and the audio's too quiet. Now I know I can set a gain in AC3 Filter or whatever... but in the end I'm not going to be playing this on the computer, but rather my dvd player, and I don't want it to be quiet there.

I've read that a basic fix for this is to just up the volume of the wavs then encode and I'm guessing the ac3'll come out fine. But I don't know how I up the volume of the wavs in the first place to do this. Any help?

[yoda313]

But I don't know how I up the volume of the wavs in the first place to do this. Any help?

Any audio editor like audacity (free) can boost volume on wav files. Just tell it to increase it an extra 10, 20, or 30% louder or whatever you want and save it as a new file. Then use those as your source to make the ac3.

[mikiem]

Sometimes it also helps to use dynamic compression, & some ac3 encoding software will allow you to set dialog and dynamic compression levels as well.