hangee_77 Posted June 20, 2004 Share Posted June 20, 2004 Hi, I am wondering why all my 2-tracks mixdown volume levels cannot as loud as all the commercial cds? Is this a matter of mastering? Hanjaya C. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Horne Posted June 20, 2004 Share Posted June 20, 2004 Originally posted by hangee_77: Hi, I am wondering why all my 2-tracks mixdown volume levels cannot as loud as all the commercial cds? Is this a matter of mastering? Hanjaya C.Compression - there is nothing very soft and almost everything is equally loud would be my guess. It's the same mentality with the sound for TV commercials. No guitarists were harmed during the making of this message. In general, harmonic complexity is inversely proportional to the ratio between chording and non-chording instruments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gulliver Posted June 20, 2004 Share Posted June 20, 2004 Originally posted by hangee_77: Hi, I am wondering why all my 2-tracks mixdown volume levels cannot as loud as all the commercial cds? Is this a matter of mastering? Hanjaya C.The short answer is YES. I am back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hangee_77 Posted June 20, 2004 Author Share Posted June 20, 2004 Mastering was what I was guessing too, but the thing is I had just spoken to one of the professional studio owner/engineer, and he said it has something to do with the mixing. I have been experimenting a lot with the T-Racks & Waves Ultra Maximizer for mastering in order to gain the volume level of my music, sometimes I pushed very very hot, but the result still cannot beat the commercial cds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burningbusch Posted June 20, 2004 Share Posted June 20, 2004 What kind of music? When I compare commercial CDs I find a great variance in RMS levels. Some examples: Bob James/Fourplay -12 to -10db Gregg Karukas -16 to 14db Donald Fagen (Kamakiriad) -20 to 18db The Fagen stuff (Roger Nichols) stuff sounds the best, (gee REALLY?). When you look at it it doesn't look compressed at all. Throughout most of the songs, they're only occasionally hitting peaks. Yes you do have to turn up the volume on your CD player to compensate. I know a lot of music is more compressed than the above examples. But running the Waves L2 at -3.5 to -5.5 I get in range of these CDs. Busch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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