Nero: Normalize audio tracks ?

What would one do if they had a collection of .wav files ripped from various CDs, and those tracks were of greatly different overall volumes, and one wanted to achieve a coherent volume balance for the whole set of them - to make a mix tape (CD) for example? I've resorted to manually increasing/decreasing amplitude track-by-track before, resorting to my own audio memory to achieve a smooth volume balance - an okay, but time-consuming approach. There must be some automated way to do this?

Try Nero Mwilson it can be set to normalize automatically when doing compilations.

I was curious about this myself awhile back. So I open two wave files with great volume differences. I then burned the two tracks for standard cd playback - the sounds were much more compressed and not listenable. I then ripped the two track into wave forms and compared them to the original. I saw the low and high frequency of the higher volume track truncated. So don't normalize if you want to preserve the original quality.

As I suspected Sd.

Sd2005gt, at what stage and by what method did you normalize the two tracks?

For a detailed discussion of the faults and benefits of normalization, read this from the recording mag Sound On Sound.