Hey all,

I'm somewhat new to home recording. I'm using Cubase SX, and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 sound card, and a Behringer 8 channel external mixing board.

when i get done mixing something with Sonar 3.. the levels look good, the sound wave levels dont look too loud or soft.. they are about 75-80% at their peeks. but when i mix it all down to a wav, the sound is much too low. how do i fix this. and can i increase the volume on each track by Xdb without it distorting? should i mix with them at their loudest level or what?

Im assuming that if you were to lower all of the eq spectrum on an instrument, that it is the equivalent of lowering the volume on an instrument(am i correct in assuming this?). So, after hearing a lot of talk about how good engineers will cut much more than they boost, this is my question:

I recently bought a Korg 32xd and have recorded a song and burned it to CD. I think it sounds very good, but is not as loud as commercially produced and mastered CDs. I can see a problem up the road when I put these songs together for a project album and the tracks will all be too quiet.

Right i've just finished mastering some tracks on my computer using soundforge. The process was 16 track -> computer -> normalise -> compression and limiting bringing the overall volume up to a steady 0.0 decibels. However on putting the files onto CD, it is noticebly quieter than other CDs.

I have a simple edirol usb powered interface. The output on the unit is of course virtually inaudible. What are my options to boost the output. This is strictly used by myself for maybe monitoring an acoustic track while laying down some vocals. Quality of sound is not an issue at all, since it is only to keep timing.

Hello. I am brand new to the forum and have been spending a lot of time reading this forums' archive.

I am not a mastering engineer but it is really challenging stuff. So I decided after about three months of studying and a bunch of trial and error on my own recordings I would say 'yes' to a home recorded mastering job.

Here is what I was/am up against:

hello!

right about know i am about to finish a lp master that's supposed
to be released on vinyl...

thats what i did so far:

analog eq-ing and some compression

result:

eq and dynamic wise all the tracks sound homogenous now !

everything good so far.

now i have all the tracks down on my daw
all levels close to 0db...

Hi

I'm trying to improve our headphone situation. Basically I'm finding that the headphones (DT100's) distort at what I'd call medium volume. We have six pairs of these and they all seem to do it. I'm driving them from a Behringer powerplay headphone amp in mono. I'm wondering if headphones distort at different levels according to how their impedence match the amp.

Could someone give me an idea of what chain you would use to obtain commercial volume levels specifically rap & r&b.(It a db war). The technique i use now is to lower the bottom end with multiband compression(c4)to reduce overload, compress everthing else about 6-9 db then eq the bottom in back in. I know there is no fix all method but there has to be a something thats commonly done.