Vamecx
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I've seemed to always have this problem, where on all frequency levels, my mixes just aren't at the same loudness and not as bright as professionally done songs. Now I'm not expecting to get as much quality as professionally done songs, but I just wish the loudness and, I guess you can say, thickness of the song was the same. For example, here's a remix I just did today:
Now if I were to play the original right after that one, or any song really, it would be probably 2x louder. It overall would just sound thicker. I use Ableton Live, and when I export the song, I usually will put it into Audacity to convert it to an MP3 from a WAV and to make sure it looks alright and everything's in check. What I'll usually get is a lot of, sort of "spikes" in the recording which seems like it's affecting the loudest part of the song, so I can't make it any louder than that without clipping. I'll usually zoom in real close and put that tiny spike down, and it's usually unnoticeable, but I'm sure that's not how the professionals are doing it.
And if I were to put the original in Audacity and look at it, you could see how it sort of looks a lot more filled up in comparison:
But if I were to go into the effects and hit amplify on my own track, I couldn't make it any louder without clipping. And you can kind of see on that picture (click on it for full size, by the way), how there's a lot of, sort of spikes in the recording that hit the clipping cap, I guess you can call it.
So my question is, how do I get rid of this problem in the DAW itself? I want my mixes to look sort of flat and leveled out. Thanks ahead! This is my first thread on this forum, I hope I did everything alright.
Now if I were to play the original right after that one, or any song really, it would be probably 2x louder. It overall would just sound thicker. I use Ableton Live, and when I export the song, I usually will put it into Audacity to convert it to an MP3 from a WAV and to make sure it looks alright and everything's in check. What I'll usually get is a lot of, sort of "spikes" in the recording which seems like it's affecting the loudest part of the song, so I can't make it any louder than that without clipping. I'll usually zoom in real close and put that tiny spike down, and it's usually unnoticeable, but I'm sure that's not how the professionals are doing it.
And if I were to put the original in Audacity and look at it, you could see how it sort of looks a lot more filled up in comparison:
But if I were to go into the effects and hit amplify on my own track, I couldn't make it any louder without clipping. And you can kind of see on that picture (click on it for full size, by the way), how there's a lot of, sort of spikes in the recording that hit the clipping cap, I guess you can call it.
So my question is, how do I get rid of this problem in the DAW itself? I want my mixes to look sort of flat and leveled out. Thanks ahead! This is my first thread on this forum, I hope I did everything alright.