Recording question

[mikehende]

I don't know if this topic belongs in this forum or even on this site so if it does not, then one of you admin/mods can remove it with my apologies please, thanks.
A friend of mine purchased a 10 volume "Disco" cd set and the recording on those cd's are terrible, some songs were recorded at different volume levels so you have to manually adjust the volume with different songs and also the cd's were made with very low Bass. That same friend has a Tascam CD burner which is a real good burner so I hooked up an eq between the mixer and the burner so this would take care of any "frequency" deficits but I would like advice on how to battle the volume problems.
The cd's in question are Club-like DJ Beatmatched "continuos" music so no gaps in between the songs so it's very difficult to manually adjust the recording level "with precision" for these songs that have low volume.
I am considering 2 options here, one, to get a "Hardware" piece of equipment like maybe a compressor limiter or Dynamics Processor that would allow me to re-record the cd through it and it would "automatically" raise the low volume and the end result would be a cd with consistent volume levels throught the entire cd, a friend of mine says that he doesn't think that there is any "Hardware" equipment that would do this.
My DJ software has an included Dynamics Processor that automatically adjusts the volume of all songs in the playlist so I am thinking that if I can't get a piece of Hardware that will do this then myabe there is a "Software" that might, so does anyone know of a Hardware/software that can do this? Or is there anything else anyone can suggest [short of throwing them out] that can be done with these cd's please? Thanks.

[Just Float]

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[FaX]

Adobe Auditon 1.5 - rip the disc's into Adobe and perform a Batch Normalise .
Would be the easiest solution IMHO .
Then perhaps add compression & eq to taste after.
The demo should allow you to do this I think.

[mikehende]

Appreciate it, will give it a try and get back to you, thanks.

[mikehende]

Wait a minute, I forgot the main issue here, I don't see how Adobe Audition will work here as from what I know about "ripping" cd's into a harddrive, whenever you're dealing with "beatmatched" cd's, since there is no space between the songs you can only choose the option to rip it as one single file and when you do this then you will lose the "tracking" info.
So my first hurdle is to find out if there a way to rip the cd but retain it's tracking info.
Any ideas anyone?

[C00kie]

You think if you rip a 60 minute CD, then the result is one wav file of 60 minutes? Normally it will be one file for each track, so only (quite rare) sub-track info is lost.

[mikehende]

well if you know something I don't know then PLEASE share it with me as I am not aware of ANY software that will allow you to rip a cd of any length that is "Beatmatched" and will give you more than 1 file?