Setting Digital Recordings to Uniform Volume

[Zappa]

I am getting close to completing my first album. It has been an entirely independent affair that I recorded in my bedroom mostly using keyboards plugged into my soundcard and CoolEdit Pro 2.0 software. As I reach completion on this project, I've become worried about how I will make it so all of the songs are relatively the same volume, so that the listener will not have to keep diddling with his or her CD Player's volume controls.

I'm looking for a program (or an option in CoolEdit, if I somehow missed it) that will very easily take all of the songs I have recorded and match them up to a certain volume or average volume. Does such a thing exist, or will I just have to go in and edit each track by ear?

[AcidQueen]

A lot of CD burning programs have the option of normalizing the track volumes.

[airborne50caliber]

AcidQueen has a good option. Also look at compressing the main mix on every song individually, assuming you don't already know that, as you might well do.

[Zappa]

I tried using Nero's normalize option, and the CD that was produced sounds distorted and nasty.

[moaner]

that's odd.

[airborne50caliber]

Nero actuially pushed the levels into clipping? Something's wrong, that's not what normalize is emant to do.