#HAR BAL PLUGIN FULL#
To balance MP3 files, first balance the full audio file and then convert it to MP3 format.īeing able to change a track’s spectrum in this way is neat enough but there’s more. However, MP3 is a lossy format and encoding removes frequency content that cannot be recovered so harmonic balancing will not be optimal. HarBal doesn’t currently support MP3 files although there are plans to add it. It’s easy, but it’s worth remembering that while adjustments can be done purely on a visual basis, it will help if you if you know where sounds and instruments sit in the mix. You can playback the original and the new versions and click a button to do an A/B comparison. In other words you can visually balance the entire audio frequency of a track. Using the Gain Change cursor you simply click and drag on the spectrum to change the shape of the curve. Immediately you can see if there are any harmonic troughs or peaks. It produces a graphic display consisting of three lines – the average energy content of the file at different frequencies, the peak energy content, and the mean of the two. Open an audio file and the program analyses its frequency content. (click to enlarge)HarBal was designed to make this process easier. HarBal’s Gain Change cursor is used to adjust the frequency curve to even out the peaks and troughs. Typically, you adjust the harmonic content of each track during mixing and hope they all fit together, tweaking here and there if they don’t. Two of the most difficult aspects of mixing and mastering are to get a good harmonic balance for individual tracks, and to balance tracks in an album as a whole. Harmonic Balancing has nothing to do with Feng Shui but everything to do with creating balanced frequencies in a recording.