equal volume level for all tracks?
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 37 posts since 11 Aug, 2014
If i'm making a mixtape on Logic Pro X and have 10 tracks, but a few of them have not same level so is there any plugin that do equal volume level for all tracks at the same time?
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- KVRAF
- 3080 posts since 17 Apr, 2005 from S.E. TN
Depends on how much time you want to invest and what seems most compatible with what you find comfortable to work with.
One way I've found easy-- Record or import each stereo mix to its own stereo track. Offset the tracks in time so only one track plays at a time, with your desired silence duration between each song.
Then use the mixer view to adjust the level of each song so the between song levels match.
If you want it fairly hot and don't want to spend a lot of time on it, insert a peak limiter on the master, and set the track and master levels so the peak limiter only occasionally limits a dB or three. That way it isn't so picky fine-tuning everything to make sure none of the mix clips. A little quicker without having to pay so much attention, maybe having to play the whole dam thing several times thru to avoid gross occasional errors.
Long ago when I'd occasionally master cd's, would use a similar method except overlap all the tracks, so they all start at zero. Solo one track at a time and work on each song/track processing chain. Then bounce each solo'd track to individual files.
That was because at that time typical cd mastering tools used a text-style or spreadsheet style edit list, so it was most convenient to start the cd authoring stage with a folder full of individual audio files, one file per song.
Dunno the features of modern cd authoring tools, dunno if that procedure would still make sense.
One way I've found easy-- Record or import each stereo mix to its own stereo track. Offset the tracks in time so only one track plays at a time, with your desired silence duration between each song.
Then use the mixer view to adjust the level of each song so the between song levels match.
If you want it fairly hot and don't want to spend a lot of time on it, insert a peak limiter on the master, and set the track and master levels so the peak limiter only occasionally limits a dB or three. That way it isn't so picky fine-tuning everything to make sure none of the mix clips. A little quicker without having to pay so much attention, maybe having to play the whole dam thing several times thru to avoid gross occasional errors.
Long ago when I'd occasionally master cd's, would use a similar method except overlap all the tracks, so they all start at zero. Solo one track at a time and work on each song/track processing chain. Then bounce each solo'd track to individual files.
That was because at that time typical cd mastering tools used a text-style or spreadsheet style edit list, so it was most convenient to start the cd authoring stage with a folder full of individual audio files, one file per song.
Dunno the features of modern cd authoring tools, dunno if that procedure would still make sense.
Last edited by JCJR on Mon Oct 13, 2014 3:43 pm, edited 2 times in total.
- KVRAF
- 11093 posts since 16 Mar, 2003 from Porto - Portugal
Radio stations are killing music, right? (not alone at that, though)arkmabat wrote:What a limiter is for, no? This is mastering we're discussing now. Radio stations use a limiter to get everything nice and loud right?
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- KVRAF
- 1619 posts since 30 May, 2003 from Milan, Italy
Put all the tracks on a separate DAW track. Listen to the loudest sections of each one, A/Bing between them, adjusting the track gain until they all sound pretty close. Don't boost any volumes, only cut. Voila. That's how to do it manually/by ear, and usually gives the best results. Another way might be to use something like the Leveller that comes with RX4, which would be quicker.
It's not really mastering (that is so much more besides just getting the levels right, not necessarily the same!), more something radio and club DJs need to do, balancing the volumes track to track.
It's not really mastering (that is so much more besides just getting the levels right, not necessarily the same!), more something radio and club DJs need to do, balancing the volumes track to track.