Chrisulrich
Member
Dear Anyone.
So mixwise - gainstaging wise - my pieces come in 3 flavours.
1.) Pieces that sound the same as anyone elses volume-wise - till you drop them into something like Audacity and see they're clipping like a hairdresser on steroids!
2.) Pieces that sound too quiet - till you do the Audacity thing and see they're ALMOST clipping like the above, any louder and they WOULD be clipping.
3.) The rare ones. They're not clipping or anywhere near it - but their waveforms are TINY! Like wiggles in cotton. But they SOUND as loud as anyone else's - thinking New Age-wise, not Heavy Metal wise - and aren't doing the clipping thing that the number 1 lot do. They're the ones I put online because at least there's no clipping going on!
Then I download someone else's piece, chuck it in Audacity and see a solid blue brick! And it's not clipping!
Please, I'm not saying I WANT my pieces to look like solid blue bricks - but types 1, 2 and 3, above, happen at random and I dunno what I'm doing to get any one of them, just they all end up as one of those types! I'd love to know enough, technically, to know HOW they do the solid-brick-with-no-clipping trick and, from that, to know how to get to any desired loudness without clipping - the Type Ones are the ones that really annoy me because they sound so right till you realise they're actually clipping without sounding too loud. Just don't get that.
Can anyone explain what's going on to me, carefully, I'm not very techie! Can do screenshots of the three types if anyone asks for them.
Yours hopefully
Chris.
So mixwise - gainstaging wise - my pieces come in 3 flavours.
1.) Pieces that sound the same as anyone elses volume-wise - till you drop them into something like Audacity and see they're clipping like a hairdresser on steroids!
2.) Pieces that sound too quiet - till you do the Audacity thing and see they're ALMOST clipping like the above, any louder and they WOULD be clipping.
3.) The rare ones. They're not clipping or anywhere near it - but their waveforms are TINY! Like wiggles in cotton. But they SOUND as loud as anyone else's - thinking New Age-wise, not Heavy Metal wise - and aren't doing the clipping thing that the number 1 lot do. They're the ones I put online because at least there's no clipping going on!
Then I download someone else's piece, chuck it in Audacity and see a solid blue brick! And it's not clipping!
Please, I'm not saying I WANT my pieces to look like solid blue bricks - but types 1, 2 and 3, above, happen at random and I dunno what I'm doing to get any one of them, just they all end up as one of those types! I'd love to know enough, technically, to know HOW they do the solid-brick-with-no-clipping trick and, from that, to know how to get to any desired loudness without clipping - the Type Ones are the ones that really annoy me because they sound so right till you realise they're actually clipping without sounding too loud. Just don't get that.
Can anyone explain what's going on to me, carefully, I'm not very techie! Can do screenshots of the three types if anyone asks for them.
Yours hopefully
Chris.