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HarBal is a unique program, extremely affordable and probably the quickest and easiest way to balance audio material.I like Har-Bal a lot also and am really looking forward to the VST plugin version. Meanwhile, itвЂ™s an ingenious program, well worth a close look by anyone who wants to improve their tracks.

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HarBal could be improved in a few areas and doubtless many are being considered, and the developer is already working on Mac and plug-in versions. However, thereвЂ™s also an active forum where you can find answers to most questions you may have.

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You can download a demo from the site but playback is limited to 8-bit which sort of defeats the object of the exercise. HarBal takes the hard work вЂ“ or impossibility! вЂ“ out of doing this by automatically compensating for any increase in the loudness so you get an accurate impression of what the filter is doing. The only way to do an accurate A/B comparison is to reduce the loudness by a commensurate amount when you boost the EQ вЂ“ or increase the loudness if you cut EQ. This makes it difficult to tell whether or not the EQ change itself is an improvement. If youвЂ™re mixing a track and boost the EQ, does the result sound better or worse? It sounds better because the boosted frequencies make it louder and our ears tell us this is better.

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Okay, so perhaps you could do something similar with a multi-band filter but it wonвЂ™t be so easy and it almost surely wonвЂ™t be as cheap! And HarBal has another major plus up its sleeve вЂ“ loudness compensation.

Music is still an art and your input is still required. However, every song has its own characteristics with energy concentrated in different areas because each uses different sounds and instruments, and creating an exact copy of another songвЂ™s spectrum will probably not pick up those areas in another song. In fact, thatвЂ™s a jolly good way to get started. You can, for example, load a CD track that youвЂ™d like your song to sound like and use that as a reference. ItвЂ™s important to realise that the best results will generally not come from trying to copy the spectrum of a reference file exactly. These are excellent starting points and if you have a song with a poor balance youвЂ™ll soon be able to whip it into shape with these.

The program comes with several reference files for common music genres including rock, contemporary, rhythm and blues, hip hop, jazz, jazz fusion, folk, techno and classical. After creating the perfect settings for a track, you can save the new filter as a reference file which can be displayed while processing other tracks so you can use it as guide.

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To balance MP3 files, first balance the full audio file and then convert it to MP3 format.Д«eing able to change a trackвЂ™s spectrum in this way is neat enough but thereвЂ™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 doesnвЂ™t currently support MP3 files although there are plans to add it. ItвЂ™s easy, but itвЂ™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 вЂ“ 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. HarBalвЂ™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 donвЂ™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.