Volume problem

[Merle]

Hello experts! Again, I must have screwed something up! Anyway, my friend came over the other night and we recored 3 tracks on a BOSS BR-8, 2 guitar tracks and a vocal track. After that we listened to the monitors and adjusted pan, eq, reverb, and volume, ect on the BR-8, then bounced these tracks to track 7 and 8.

Then we converted the zip disk to a wav file and imported it to SONAR to further play around with the sound, but now I lost lots of volume! I have all volume settings on the computer and in the SONAR software and the computer speakers turned all the way up, and the volume is still really low!

Any ideas of what went wrong?

Also, how in the hell do I make the sound sample big in SONAR? Right now it looks like a small line only! It never was that way until recently! Did I set a parameter wrong and it stays that way? How do I enlarge the sample so I can see all the sound waves instead of a little line?!

I should just stick to playing flamenco guitar instead of trying to figure this chit out!! ;>)

Merle

 

[TexRoadkill]

you may have had too many spikes in the waveform. When you converted it to wave it dropped the volume. You might try using a little compression or limiting to smooth out the dynamics a bit.