Low volume on CD

[rcbrown58]

I have a tascam 2488ii and the CD,s that I record are not as loud as normal CD's. Am I not recording loud enough, or is my problem in mastering or transfer from hard drive to CD. The music sounds great in playback from the Tascam. Thanks...

 

[moresound]

What are you using to burn the CDs?

 

[rcbrown58]

The tascam has a CD burner...

 

[moresound]

Oh yeah right ....have you used any processing?

 

[Chibi Nappa]

I have a tascam 2488ii and the CD,s that I record are not as loud as normal CD's. Am I not recording loud enough, or is my problem in mastering or transfer from hard drive to CD. The music sounds great in playback from the Tascam. Thanks...

How quiet is it? What exactly is the problem? Is the problem that you have to turn the stereo volume knob further to get the playback volume you want, or is the problem that you can't get the playback volume you want? If it is the former...is that really a problem in the first place?

 

[moresound]

How quiet is it? What exactly is the problem? Is the problem that you have to turn the stereo volume knob further to get the playback volume you want, or is the problem that you can't get the playback volume you want? If it is the former...is that really a problem in the first place?

whoa....I had to read that twice Chibi...but I think that I've got it now.

 

[Armistice]

Head on over to the mastering forum and read up... heaps of info on this "problem" there...

 

[rcbrown58]

yes, I just have to turn the volume up. I read up in the mastering forum, thanks...

 

[Chibi Nappa]

So if it is all right when the listener turns the volume up, leave it at that and call it done. Anything else hurts the sound...sometimes very badly.