Can Anyone Help

[Jimmy2002]

Hi My name's paul ive been recording at home for about 1 month now but i have a problem every time i burn my finshed piace on to cd the volume is extremly quiet. yet when i play it in my recording software the volume is perfect can anyone help thanks

 

[mshilarious]

Yes, you have a gain staging problem. Check the meters in your software--do they read low. Also look at your track window--do the waves peak near the top? If not, then your recording is actually rather quiet. But you might have your monitors (pc speakers, whatever) set loud so it seems your recording is loud, but when you burn a CD and play it on something else, it sounds quiet.

Get the levels right when you record--probably you don't have enough gain on the preamps feeding the PC. Increase gain until the peaks read -6dBFS in your software.

Another possibility is that you need compression to even out the overall volume level.

 

[ssscientist]

To build on the good advice above, do a Google search for Audacity. It's a freeware stereo editor with the ability to open more than one wav file @ a time. It has a very easy to use 'amplify' feature under the effects menu that you can set to 'do not allow clipping' and juice the maximum db out of your burned discs.

 

[ssscientist]

Just use it on your final mix, not individual tracks...

 

[Jimmy2002]

Thank u for the help i will try what u said

 

[mixsit]

...every time i burn my finshed piace on to cd the volume is extremly quiet.

Commpared to other cd's?

..yet when i play it in my recording software the volume is perfect

If this means that your track's master meter level is up near maximum (zero' in digi land), then the difference is the peak-to-average levels of the two. Our ear hears the average volume as the loudness' (generally), but the meters are showing the peak levels.
Wayne