Volume normalisation ?

[DanB]

Any audio experts in here ? I have an audio file which is quite quiet, and I've edited in sections from a different file which a much louder. I'm using Nero Wave Editor, and I thought that "Normalisation" would smooth out the volume but it doesn't seem to ? The options I find by Googling seem to focus on getting a normalised volume across different sound files.

So the question is this - is it possible to in some way equalise the volume levels within a wave file ? If it is, is there any free software that might achieve this ?!

 

[Uhtred]

normalisation takes the peak of the file and makes it as loud as possible and increases the other parts by the same amount. There is a process to do what you want but the name escapes my right now :/

 

[M0KUJ1N]

Dynamic Range Compression if memory serves (NOT to be confused with file size compression). Audacity can do this but its not an automagic process Im afraid.