Logic Pro 8 normalized songs still quieter than itunes songs
- Thread starter Draculing
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There are two things here:
1) The presets will not just work like that, you may need to raise the level of everything going into your output bus in order to "drive" whatever compressors limiters are there. This is the simplest way to get more "loudness", a more complex way would be to set the input gain of each processor in the chain.
Use your ears to know when you are driving too hard, ie listen for distortion and destruction of dynamics in the tune.
2) Most/many commercial releases have been mastered by specialist mastering engineers with better equipment and better monitoring than a lot of us have in our home studios. They have the experience and trained ears to get loudness without nastyness (well some of them!)
1) The presets will not just work like that, you may need to raise the level of everything going into your output bus in order to "drive" whatever compressors limiters are there. This is the simplest way to get more "loudness", a more complex way would be to set the input gain of each processor in the chain.
Use your ears to know when you are driving too hard, ie listen for distortion and destruction of dynamics in the tune.
2) Most/many commercial releases have been mastered by specialist mastering engineers with better equipment and better monitoring than a lot of us have in our home studios. They have the experience and trained ears to get loudness without nastyness (well some of them!)
first off, i'm a serious noob at this stuff.
second, i tried this hi pass thing and it definitely helped. thx.
another question along these lines:
after i apply the limiter (should i use adaptive limiter or regular, btw? i've been using adaptive) and compression, the meter says it's 3-4 db in the red. should i reduce the volume so that it isn't? shouldn't the limiter fix this?
second, i tried this hi pass thing and it definitely helped. thx.
another question along these lines:
after i apply the limiter (should i use adaptive limiter or regular, btw? i've been using adaptive) and compression, the meter says it's 3-4 db in the red. should i reduce the volume so that it isn't? shouldn't the limiter fix this?
If you don't see it in the track mixer or arrange mixer drawer, have a look in the audio environment.
It does catch people out quite often, so no, I don't think it is in any way a stupid question. The master Channel strip regulates the signal level of each and every output channel strip in Logic.
kind regards
Mark
It does catch people out quite often, so no, I don't think it is in any way a stupid question. The master Channel strip regulates the signal level of each and every output channel strip in Logic.
kind regards
Mark
