Mixing levels

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That's part of what I was saying about the master fader. Because it's already up there, I don't have hardly any room to increase the master volume to bring the levels where they should be.
If the mix was low, then I could just raise the master fader. But it's already almost peaked itself. And this is the way it was when I got Sonar XL.
 
just to clarify you CAN't go over Odbfs...if you are you are clipping...the red part in the volum indication is -6 up to 0
 
jazzyblues said:
On my Sonar, -3 is under the red. And 0 is under that.
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you sure your looking at it right? i wasn't aware you were able to change the numbers on the volume indicator
 
Don't know if this is what you're talking about, but if you're talking about the volume meters, you can right-click on them and select a dB Range (12, 24, 48, 60, 78, 90). If you select 24 or 48, the first mark below 0 is -3 dB.
 
I'm talking about the grey meter. 6 is at the top, then 3, then 0, then -3, and so forth. And 3 is right at the red, not below it like I said earlier.

And I do have the green on 60 db.

Sorry if I'm confusing anyone here. I'm new at this.
 
One thing to consider, if you have the CPU power, is place a compressor on every track, have it shaving off about 1db all the time, more at various times in the song, at about 3/1 with a fast attack and release.... this will keep those occasional louder than normal transients from kicking your ouput meter up as far, and will contribute to the apparent loudness. You can then consider putting another one on the final mix shaving off just a little here and there, and then smack the balls out of it with Timeworks mastering compressor after you have it mixed down to stereo, before you bounce it down to 16 bit in Wavelab or whatever you choose to do the after-mix hoopla with.
Learn to use a multi-band compressor too, very handy once you figure out why.
 
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