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Hi,

every time when I render my songs (in wav) they always are low of volume...
The Master is set to it's highest point where it's a little bit clipping in red but still the rendered songs are in low volume... Can somebody help me out??

Greetz Kevin

Hi-

For starters, is your mix only occasionally peaking into the red but mostly lower, or is the entire mix generally the same volume and that volume is high enough to keep it almost in the red all the time?

If your track is only occasionally peaking into the red then you need to compress/limit your mix so that the peaks do not restrict how loud your mix can be. You can do this in Live with the compressors, use a plugin, or use a third-party post-processing editor.

If that's not the issue, then it could be that the bit resolution your are rendering is very high and when you bring your rendered song into your wave editor, there is still a lot of headroom above the existing audio. Whether you want this headroom or not depends on what the final state of your audio is going to be, whether it is going to be downsampled to a 16-bit file, or if it will stay high-res for some other medium than CD.