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  • February 16, 2014 at 10:56 pm in reply to: Recording / Mastering question. #2004336
    Ian
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    Yea makes sense 🙂

    If im gonna do it i guess i should pick it up earlier rather than later lol.

    I have autogain enabled as standard, but when i load a track i always seem to find myself fiddling with the channel gain trying to level the new track. I didnt realise i could essentially just turn the orange button on and make 1 adjustment and not have to worry about it again.

    Regards

    February 16, 2014 at 8:41 pm in reply to: Recording / Mastering question. #2004317
    Ian
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    Cheers Vintage.

    Yea ive read up on Plat Notes, sounds a great programme, i’m just not fancying having to retag everything when it creates new copies of the tracks lol.

    I just wondered how much ppl actually mess around with the orange autogain setting on tracks, or whether most ppl tend to just change on the blue light instead, cheers 🙂

    February 15, 2014 at 5:50 am in reply to: Recording / Mastering question. #2003768
    Ian
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    Do you adjust the autogain much when you import new tracks?

    February 15, 2014 at 5:20 am in reply to: Recording / Mastering question. #2003761
    Ian
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    True enough. To be honest im having a hard time even understanding how to autogain and channel gains work in Traktor when you load a track up initially. I take it the orange light next to each channel gain is for a new writeable auto gain and if u switch it to blue thats just a normal channel gain as you would get on a normal mixer?

    February 15, 2014 at 4:03 am in reply to: Recording / Mastering question. #2003756
    Ian
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    Cheers m8 🙂

    So ive just messed with hard limit in Audacity, so i see its taking the edges off the waveforms, i understand that bit now. You essentially hard limit if youve got close to clipping yea?

    Yea i get why that would create for a boring sounding mix hard limiting to such a high value and then amplilfying, the waveform would just look like a big wall wouldnt it, youd get a headache after 10minutes listening to that 🙂

    I want the dynamics to stay intact where possible, i always try and buy wav/flac files now for the extra quality, i dont want to destroy then just for loudnesss-sake 🙂

    Regards

    Ian

    February 15, 2014 at 1:29 am in reply to: Recording / Mastering question. #2003745
    Ian
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    Thanks for your post Drew, made interesting reading!

    I didnt know that i actually had another 3db after the clipping came on.

    I dont have hard limiter in audacity so ill have to redownload it i think:P

    Im struggling with autogain. channel gain in Traktor so, although im getting better at matching each tracks overall volume there are still a few louder and quieter tracks in my waveforms, so for the time being i think i would need to normalize in Audacity, is there a value i need to choose when normalizing?

    Speaking of which (ecuse the noob questions) do i normalize first THEN hard limit using the value you posted above? What would the effect be if i hard limited THEN normalized?

    Appreciate your time

    Regards

    Ian

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