Volume Question...........

[Tyler22]

I would like to know if there is a way (or an effect to use) to make the audio louder( so you dont have to crank the stereo to make it normal volume)?. its not that it sounds muffled or anything its just that it doesnt have that crisp clean punchy drums, bass, or guitar like professional recorded cd does. i know i can just turn up the master volume after you mix down but then you get it to clip some times. i am using cakewalk guitar tracks 2.....but i am looking for my sonar 2 cd and i cannot find it ANYWHERE!!!!!!!!!!!so please leave an answer for both programs..i am gonna buy a sonic maximizer for my guitar and bass......do you think that would help???i am gonna run my guitar and bass and drums through my DigiTech GNX3 GeNetX™ Guitar Workstation and then into the sonic maximizer, all direct.Thanks alot!


P.S.
Is there anyway to get another copy
of sonar2 if i dont have the box?!?!Its way
better than guitar tracks 2 in my opinion.thanks

 

[intense]

You need a compressor.

 

[Cloneboy Studio]

I would like to know if there is a way (or an effect to use) to make the audio louder( so you dont have to crank the stereo to make it normal volume)?.

As noted above a compressor can help you here if the dynamic range is too wide and you need to increase apparent (or actual) loudness. However, I suspect you are talking about having a MASTERED finished product which is an altogether different process.

Please see Blue Bear's article... he'll post a link in this thread soon I wager.

i am gonna buy a sonic maximizer for my guitar and bass......do you think that would help???i am gonna run my guitar and bass and drums through my DigiTech GNX3 GeNetX™ Guitar Workstation and then into the sonic maximizer, all direct.Thanks alot!

Sonic maximizers don't increase loudness--they create an "illusion" of a signal having deeper lows and more sparkly highs. Generally I think that these types of devices sound wretched in the guitar signal (but can work as a post-recording tool); running the guitar direct thru a modeler like you are suggesting will probably sound god awful because I've only heard SM's through tube amps a long, long time ago. I shudder to think what it will be like through a digital modeler.

My suggestion is to learn more about recording--it is a lot cheaper than buying all these 'quick fix' pieces of equipment that more often than not make your sound worse than anything else.

 

[Massive Master]

Although good mastering can maximize a recording's potential volume, the maximum listeing level of any particular recording is decided before the "record" button is ever hit.

Starting with the playing style, the arrangement, fresh guitar strings, drum heads, the "space between the notes" all the way through microphone selection & preamp settings, EQ, compression, mixing style -

You need to stack nickels of quality to get dollars of quality (and volume). Every nickel counts. Any missing nickel takes away from the whole.