Recording levels on CD-R/Distortion


I have a Pioneer Elite CD recorder that I have made some compilation recordings on. Having recorded music tracks from various original(studio)cd's directly via coax connection (without adjustment to recording levels) has created a very disturbing fluctuation in playback levels...during playback I can have a comfortable level set and the next track on the disc will wake up the neighbors.

Though I have not used them, the recording unit does have adjustable recording levels.

In making future compilation CD-R's, if I were to increase the recording level on certain tracks to "match" others, would I be inroducing unwanted disortion into the new CD-R recordings?

Any input would be appreciated. Thanks!
barrelchief

Showing 1 response by ftma48d

To all you lucky people who happen to come across this. I'm into computers as well as music...there is a program called beta becker (computer program) which will even out all your recordings sound levels. The program also has an equalizer that will work miracles on badly recorded music and reproduce exactly the same quality of good recorded music that you change around also..Eva Cassidy's song bird will sound the same only the order can be changed by you without quality loss. This program and Adaptic CD are a must have if you are going to change around CD's or make one with multiple tracks from different recordings. If the recording industry continues to make the defective recordings to prevent you from making your own the way you want it, you will be scrambling for these....you can send in an analog recording to your cd burner which will record the analog version, then put it into the beta becker program which will send it out to your computers cd writer making you the digital verson....but don't tell anyone this. The final word is that these programs will make all the tracks on one cd the same playback level and you can make all your cds the same level of playback without quality loss. You have to have a cd player, by the way, that will play computer generated cds which is almost all of the new ones but sorry not the older cd players.