
spantini
COO of me, inc.
I know how to normalise tracks during and after mixing, but I had a mix I rendered to mp3 which came out at a low volume. Not too low, it was reasonable, but lower than most people's mixes. When playing on Win 11's Media Player in my laptop, I had to set the volume at 99 to match other's mp3s which could be played at a volume setting of 70.
I loaded the stereo render mp3 back into a Reaper track and tried to normalise it but it wouldn't normalise.
So instead of going to a limiter, I used an app to boost the dBs by X-amount (3dB in this case), and that corrected the situation. Now it's volume matches that of other's mp3s - volume setting of 70 is plenty loud.
This got me to wondering what those apps use to raise the dBs. A limiter? If so, what settings would they use? The limiters I've used in Reaper do the job well but are easily overdone.
I loaded the stereo render mp3 back into a Reaper track and tried to normalise it but it wouldn't normalise.
So instead of going to a limiter, I used an app to boost the dBs by X-amount (3dB in this case), and that corrected the situation. Now it's volume matches that of other's mp3s - volume setting of 70 is plenty loud.
This got me to wondering what those apps use to raise the dBs. A limiter? If so, what settings would they use? The limiters I've used in Reaper do the job well but are easily overdone.