Increasing the overall Volume of track...Help?

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I have two different routes that I can take: Cakewalk SONAR 2.0 XL or the Yamaha AW2816 without the WAVE's card.

Here is the situation. I do a live 24 chanell mix of our churches band, they're incredable, and record it to a tascam CDRecorder and Video. Every once in a while I will take the CD home to practice and work on my "mastering and eq'ing" chops. This past week I tracked a piece of music that someone needs a copy of and I would like to boost the signal a bit. Based on the Equipment I listed above what is the best way to accomplish this. Mind you I do plan on doing a little eq'ing also before boosting the overall signal.

Thanks for any feed back.

David Breckheimer
Acoustic Tones
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It sounds to me that "brickwall limiting" is what you're looking for. It is a special type of limiter which is sometimes called a hard limiter. A compressor can also be used.
 
-Bring the levels up in Sonar as much asw you can with gain boost. Then try the compressor the comes with 'XL' set as fast as it will go. (It may or may not catch the peaks though.)
The UltraFunk R3 comp has a seperate limiter, don't know if Sonar's do.
 
Great suggestions one and all. This is a great BBS and very helpful. I have posted a few of my tunes here and have received a lot of great help and feed back on all of my questions.

Thanks again!! And any other suggestions are welcomed.

David
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David - when you get some extra cash ($650-$700), look into the Waves Ltd. Masters package which includes the L2 limiter and their Multiband compressor. If you're willing to spend the money and the time to learn them, these plugins will get you where you want to go.

And since they are DirectX, you can use them from within Sonar.

There are other tools available to do this, but I haven't found anything better.
 
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