Use a limiter to tame the peaks. Then see what the RMS is. If you still need help with the percieved loudness after that, your best bet would be to send it to a mastering engineer.

Cain't as far as I know. You'll have to compress or limit to bring down the stray peaks in order to have room to raise RMS levels. You can't just "normalize the RMS" or turn up the RMS knob.

LOL...Lucid...the buck stops here with me. Anyway, this is essentially what I needed to know. I'll tame the peaks [limiter] and then bump up the RMS.

thanks guys.

-paul.

ptfigg, email me at aaron (at symbol) lucidwaves (dot) com

Maybe I can help you out.

But -12?!? Does there *really* need to be a "target" volume?

The point is to find out where the mix wants to be and perhaps to massage it - a little - to get a little more out of it.

The point should never be to shoot for a specific number... Especially when you're working with a mix with a 35dB crest.

That being said - I would think that revisiting the mix at the track level would get you better results than trying to cut down the dynamic range of a full mix by two thirds. Find out what has too much dynamic range in the mix and start there.

Massive Mastering wrote: That being said - I would think that revisiting the mix at the track level would get you better results than trying to cut down the dynamic range of a full mix by two thirds. Find out what has too much dynamic range in the mix and start there.

i agree