KVR Audio

Mister Natural · Post by **Mister Natural** » Sun May 29, 2016 9:17 pm

Over the last several months, the pieces I've exported from LIVE9 to MP3 file and then uploaded to SoundCloud are very low in volume. You really need to turn up the gain on your player to hear them. Is this a function of the master track trim level being too low prior to export ? Should I apply more compression/limiting to the master ? My pieces are not getting much love because they are too quiet.

Thoughts ?

Tarekith · Post by **Tarekith** » Mon May 30, 2016 6:05 am

Are you doing any sort of mastering at all?

BertKoor · Post by **BertKoor** » Mon May 30, 2016 7:44 am

Mister Natural wrote:My pieces are not getting much love because they are too quiet.

Is that the actual feedback you're getting, or is that just your hunch?

Mister Natural · Post by **Mister Natural** » Mon May 30, 2016 1:30 pm

Erik - using Ozone5
say, looking at my Export dialog box last night . . . could it be as simple as the "normalize" button not being checked ?

Dutchman - actual feedback; thank you very much

Tarekith · Post by **Tarekith** » Mon May 30, 2016 1:35 pm

It shouldn't be normalize unless you're setting up the limiter wrong in Ozone and exporting a mix too quiet. If you want to send me a copy of the actual file I can take a look at it for you.

thecontrolcentre · Post by **thecontrolcentre** » Mon May 30, 2016 1:55 pm

Mister Natural wrote:Over the last several months, the pieces I've exported from LIVE9 to MP3 file and then uploaded to SoundCloud are very low in volume.

How are you exporting from Live to MP3? The export options in Live are either WAV or AIFF ...

Mister Natural · Post by **Mister Natural** » Mon May 30, 2016 2:00 pm

^ right, I export the WAV file to my desktop, then convert to MP3 with the LAME XP app . . .

Tarekith · Post by **Tarekith** » Mon May 30, 2016 2:28 pm

That track is definitely very quiet, it's peaking at -18dBFS. Have you looked at the Ozone manual, or maybe some tutorials online? Normalizing might help in this case, but something else is going on if your track is being exported this quietly after mastering it yourself.