Aug 28, 2005 02:39 pm yeah, you need to learn the fine art of mastering. Head over to www.har-bal.com and read the tutorial there...good stuff.
weird volume question
Posted on Aug 28, 2005 02:36 pm
jamiee
Member Since: Aug 07, 2005
Ok so im running protools and ive finished mixing and mastering and all that and it sounds exellent through my monitors. so i bounce it and burn it onto a cd through itunes and bring it upstairs to my pc to listen to it and post it on the internet but the sound i get is incredibly weak and low when i put it onto my pc or anything that isnt plugged into my monitors. is there something im doing wrong? is there anyway i can raise the volume or give it more punch without it clipping? also, is there anyway to burn the cd through protools?
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Aug 28, 2005 02:39 pm yeah, you need to learn the fine art of mastering. Head over to www.har-bal.com and read the tutorial there...good stuff.
Aug 28, 2005 05:20 pm Don't forget to check the simple things, like the Windows volume control for Wave & CD Audio! Have you tried the disks in your auto or home stereo?
Aug 28, 2005 11:39 pm ive mastered the song and made the volumes as high as possible without clipping and all that i also have all my pc volumes up and its still soft...hmmmmm anything else?
Aug 29, 2005 12:53 am I really think dB has it nailed. When you Maximize your volume the maximizing routine will 'pack' your waveform's density and increase loudness beyond that of increasing volume to the clipping limit. The resulting waveform will appear to be 'clipped' as large sections of the waveform will be truncated at max levels. The resulting sound however will be fine.
Aug 29, 2005 07:38 am Walt? How ya been, homie?
jamiee, did you compress or maximize your music? Apps like that, and like HarBal often help a great deal in raising the overall volume. Magneto and Vintage Warmer do as well.
Sep 06, 2005 11:55 am this is RMS volume, grab a limiter, and give your song a squeese....some like to choke it and some is left with more room....get some RMS METERS and listen to pro stuff, and then back to yours. and yeah it's a part of mastering....although i spent two days last week learnig another fine skill of mastering is CD authoring...gettin' them two second gaps (and i'm talkin' about the kind that count the two seconds backwards on consumer cd players....RMS levels of all songs to sound the same (gawsh!!!) bla, as a small project studio, we do offer "mastering" services (which means ME) and i don't reccomend i do it, but if ya can't afford a real mastering house, i'll get it "sellable".
i use Wavelab and Har-bal, with Ozone as my main mastering plugin (although i didn't use it at all on my last mastering job!!!)
Sep 06, 2005 12:07 pm lol, has this question been asked 1 million times yet DB?
Sep 06, 2005 02:13 pm its not the number of times its asked, its the number of people HRC helps that counts
Sep 09, 2005 12:09 am Hey dB! The ole hommie is doing ok. Lots of new stories to tell and such of course. One armed wall paper hanger that's me!
As above, commercial CD's are maximized. The signal is compressed increasing it's density, or as per above the RMS (or power) content. If you look at the wave file of a maximized piece it will look to be clipped in a wave editor. It is not. The portions that appear to be clipped off are actualy packed into the new signal making that signal more dense or more powerfull.
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