ABLETON EXPORTS TOO QUIET

[slatepipe]

suck what mister?

[dazzer]

BitWig sorts this shit out. F'real.

[tigali]

Could you post one of your tracks as an example of one that is too quiet? Maybe we can have a look and see what would be the best way to solve it.

[BoddAH]

You need a set of monitors that goes to eleven.

[Synchronix]

I hate to say this, but the issue is your mastering. You probably have frequency bands that are too quiet, and you probably have a large dynamic range on the track. Dynamic range is the difference between the quietest parts of the track, compared with the loudest. When you have too much dynamic range, it can make the track seem quiet. This is because the average of the waveform comes down.

If you over compress, your track can sound flat and lacking emotion. USE COMPRESSORS, DON"T OVERUSE THEM.

Do not exceed 0db on the master. It's not going to make your track louder. It's just going to make it more distorted.

The plugin "Multi-band compressor" is really good for squeezing a higher average out of your sounds (which will make it sound louder).

hope this helps,

http://www.soundcloud.com/Synchronix

[[stm]]

Hi guys,

Just FYI, I've removed all the off-topic and troll posts from this thread.

[re:dream]

My posts were on topic?

[dazzer]

Hi guys,

Just FYI, I've removed all the off-topic and troll posts from this thread.

To have read some of the tosh that's been posted on this forum over the years it feels pretty weird to have had a post removed for being either off topic or trolling

[chapelier fou]

Yeah why THIS thread ?

[timday]

It's been said here before but...
http://youtu.be/c69-3znyLrc
Nice clean sounds. This is clearly how Tarekith does it.

[Moofer]

I too was having this problem, so did the following to resolve the issue, I don't know which step solved it out of these two, but it now exports at the same volume and the Vocals are not normalised.

• In Arrangement View, Master, Set the Track Volume to 0 (min was set to minus -20)

• reset Live: https://help.ableton.com/hc/en-us/artic ... eset-Live-

As my issue wasn't just pure volume, it was also about the overall normalisation of volume across tracks (mainly my vocal), I think this might be related to the Normalise button on the Export Audio/Video, I suspect that once turned on, it stays on, hence the need for a system reset.

[oscarstott]

[Ligriv]

Ignore the red just turn tracks up as loud as you want them ignor the red….burn it… listen it’s actually exactly what you wanted. People that talk about never go into the red don’t know what they talking about!

[Tarekith]

Umm..... no.

[jlgrimes]

i dont care about any sort of limiting or compressing BS, i just want a simple way to increase the decibles of my songs by 4-6 decibles.

i just want my exported songs to be similar in volume compared to other songs in i-tunes.

if anyone tells me to compress or limit more they can suck it

This is a complex topic and there are many factors that must be accounted for:

1. Genre
2. Sounds used
3. Arrangement
4. Frequency distribution
5. Balance of each individual track
6. Use of volume automation for each track..
7. Compression/Limiting
8. Controlled use of distortion/saturation
9. Mastering
10. Mixing

Each one is a topic in itself. And while Compression/Limiting isn't always the answer, sometimes it is and it is highly dependent on genre and the use of those tools is an art that can take years to get right.


My suggestion is to budget for either a good engineer to mix your song and one to master.

A good Mastering Engineer will offer some criticism of the mix to suggest what can be improved in the mix.


Also a good loudness meter can help as it helps to understand peak levels, lufs levels, rms levels etc.

Getting loud tracks is easy. Getting great sounding loud tracks can be very tricky.