Sounds like the track is clipping, turn the channels down a bit, so its all under 0dB

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cheers man. did the trick. I added the dB meter to all the channels and made sure none of them went over 0dB.

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Try and keep the overall track below 0dB dude, i.e. put a dB meter on the mastyer channel and keep an eye on that one

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I always suggest to start low. Turn up your speakers and build your track at a very low volume... first I try to make sure no one of my channels exceeds -11dB. Except kick and bass which can be a bit louder.
If you think the balance is ok, you can gradually bring up all the elements evenly until you get close to the 0dB mark. If your track still feels too silent now, that's what mastering is supposed to do.

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Originally posted by cybernetica I always suggest to start low. Turn up your speakers and build your track at a very low volume... first I try to make sure no one of my channels exceeds -11dB. Except kick and bass which can be a bit louder. If you think the balance is ok, you can gradually bring up all the elements evenly until you get close to the 0dB mark. If your track still feels too silent now, that's what mastering is supposed to do.

good idea, but you should not keep it too low, because then with the mastering you would raise the noise level too...and the song might sound a bit...worse...loud enough but bad hehe, guess you know what I mean

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Oh never looked at it that way... but its ok if you bring up the levels enough before mastering I guess

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yeah as long as you do it before mastering...because then during the mastering stage you use a lot of various processors to get the levels (sometimes just a little bit) ... and when you have to raise levels a lot, you'll definitely be raising the noise level also

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Originally posted by cybernetica I always suggest to start low. Turn up your speakers and build your track at a very low volume... first I try to make sure no one of my channels exceeds -11dB. Except kick and bass which can be a bit louder. If you think the balance is ok, you can gradually bring up all the elements evenly until you get close to the 0dB mark. If your track still feels too silent now, that's what mastering is supposed to do.

I do it exactly the opossite lol, I turn all the volume very high, each channel, etc, that makes me listen very rough wich channels are the more alike to create distorion when all the levels will be adjusted correctly later.

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Originally posted by xiad cheers man. did the trick. I added the dB meter to all the channels and made sure none of them went over 0dB.

Waste of CPU, there is already a dB meter for every channel and the master channel on the mixer window.

Yeah just to reiterate what people said. Even though it may sound better louder, produce softer but not too soft so that you leave headroom for adjustments. I usually don't let the master db meter near the play button to go blazing red, but just close. For the final volume boost, I use the master compressor to increasing volume. Some thoughts.

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Originally posted by cybernetica I always suggest to start low. Turn up your speakers and build your track at a very low volume... first I try to make sure no one of my channels exceeds -11dB. Except kick and bass which can be a bit louder. If you think the balance is ok, you can gradually bring up all the elements evenly until you get close to the 0dB mark. If your track still feels too silent now, that's what mastering is supposed to do.

Yup thats what i do. But then i render it as a wave and throw it in Sound Forge 8 and EQ it in there.

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