I have a problem with cubase sx3. Say I have my song completly finished, mastered and everything as best I can. Now when I play it through cubase, the volume sounds perfect. However, everytime I do audio mixdown, it mix's down fine, but when I open the mp3 or wav into windows media player, or winamp or something, the sounds are blended right, it just sounds like the volume isint turned up like it was playing in cubase. I've checked all my wires to see if something was messed up but I dont think thats it. I cant figure it out to save my life. I end up having to use Waves Ultramaximizer after I do the mixdown to get it loud enough. I've tried the real time audio mixdown to and get the same thing. Everything is sampled at 44,100 and so is the mixdown.

I using 2.6 ghz pentium, 1 gig ram, with m-audio audiophile 192 card. And Alesis mk2 monitors. No mixer or anything, everything is done inside cubase.

every 3rd party mp3 player has its own EQ settings which drastically effect the 'levels' your speaking of. If you have a wav editor like sound forge or cool edit, open your wav in there and if your levels are still down then let me know... it could be something in cubase your missing

Hey. Using Cubase, I can only assume that you are using thier ASIO drivers. For whatever reason, in my expirience, ASIO drivers tend to be much louder than the sound actually being produced. To correct for this, just open it up in some wave editing program, such as the free WavePad or Audacity . Both of these programs have a filter called 'normalize'. Basicly, normalize takes the waveform, analyzes its peaks and increases the amplitude according to them so that youll peak just below 0db. If you are mastering the song, you should probably keep it 2db-4db below though so that you dont blow anyones speakers. People can always turn the volume up but they get pissed at you if the volume was already too loud .

Cheers,
Zac

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Ah thanks man ! That must be it with the asio drivers. When I open it up in sound forge, the levels looked right but the sound was still low. Normalizing works better for me than the ultramaximizing did.

Thanks again.