Why are my bounces so quiet?

daggers4 wrote:

I actually hired an Logic tutor to come to my house for 3 hours, and he said my settings were all fine... I mixed the track slightly differently with his help, and the mix sounds better but still low volume.

I'm going to send my mixes to a master engineer, and see if he can make them sound better. Otherwise I'm switching to Reason!

Read this thread.....

Mastering Volume Question

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And for those of us who don't live on your head?

space dogs wrote:

And for those of us who don't live on your head?

Move.

To my knowledge nothing has lived on my head since those pesky lice back in 1971.

Maybe you meant in my head?

Anyhow, newsflash: that's where everybody lives: in the heads of others. Therefore your question is, though meant as an insult, in fact not thought through at all.

Anyway, how come I (and many, many others using Logic Pro) can get mixes as loud as commercial releases then? I am using the same Logic Pro as you are.

Mmm, maybe the difference is that I have read and understood what was in those links I provided ages ago, and tried things out, and picked up advice and tips from people who know what they're doing and why they doing it.

And maybe you are trying to SLAM your tracks into the ears of the listeners. Second newsflash: not a real good approach. Not even for supermassive metal or hardcore black dancehousetriphiphop holes.

daggers4 wrote:

... Otherwise I'm switching to Reason!

This says it all really.......

I'm switching to heroin.

Its a shame that you didn't take the time to read what i typed that you quoted. i have sorted the sound level now, it is fine, i am happy with it, enjoying logic and making some great sounds

why are you assuming i am slamming anything into anything? as you are not able to actually anything i've made, why have you made this conclusion? Jealous of my stunning good looks and untold millions in the bank? i thought so!

really, i can't wait to here back from you, but in the likely event that i disengage myself from this thread i'll bid you a good life

Kindest bumcheeks regards

Jack (Mrs)

space dogs wrote:

Its a shame that you didn't take the time to read what i typed that you quoted.

I quoted bits of "And for those of us who don't live on your head?" and I just checked again, but that is what you wrote. And again I tell you: nobody lives on my head. So that sentence means: everybody. You tried to make somesort of snappironic remark or sarciwitty question or something, but language let you down. Also, it has a high "right back at ya" rating, since you appear to be the sloppier reader here.

If you meant the bit about your newfound levelbliss, it was confusing due to sloppy interpunction. I first read "+3.6 master volume" but I must now assume that you mean that you added 3.6 dB to the Main Output fader? Or even before that? Or to the master fader? Or is that at 0? And is that the master volume at zero (what the meters would tell you), or is it the master fader at zero?

space dogs wrote:

increase output level, +3.6 master volume at 0.0

space dogs wrote:

why are you assuming i am slamming anything into anything?

I did not assume or conclude anything. I contemplated the possibility ("maybe") because you said you wanted your bounces to be as loud as commercial tracks (just naming a few examples of such tracks would also have helped), and after ignoring all the actually useful links I gave you, you finally come up with the "solution" of cranking your main output or master fader (interpunction is a bit unclear in your post about this) to +3.6, or: more than twice as loud as 0, with a risk of clipping your outputs. But you're right, I haven't heard anything, in spite of me asking for that (because it does make it a lot easier to answer these kind of questions). So that's why I could only add the word "maybe". I don't choose these words for nothing, you know.

But, I do admit that I may have, eh, aggregated you and the original poster, daggers4 (I forgot that you were a later piggybacker).

space dogs wrote:

really, i can't wait to here back from you,

The word "I" (as in "me") is always written as a capital.

"Here" means "in this place" and is not a verb. I understand that you figuratively mean "listen", which is spelled "hear".

Example: "I will not be waiting here to hear from you, since you probably will not reply."

That is also not an assumption, but a forecast.

space dogs wrote:

And for those of us who don't live on your head?

Are you averse to learning something that would help you achieve a musical goal, that doesn't make sense. Learning is one of the great joys of life.

Pancenter wrote:

Learning is one of the great joys of life.

...and becomes a part of one's daily routine.... when trying to achieve almost anything....

🙂

The Art Of Sound wrote:

Pancenter wrote:

Learning is one of the great joys of life.

...and becomes a part of one's daily routine.... when trying to achieve almost anything....

🙂

+1

For me it answers one of oldest questions known to man/woman.

Once the intellect has been groomed to teach itself, the emotional/spiritual becomes primary focus.

space dogs wrote:

who are you to give me lessons about anything? like a give a rats doo dah 🙂

Evidently ignorance is not bliss.

isn't it? i quite like it there, full of happy times and people who don't judge you or tell you 'the rules'

I know this is old, but I came here looking for an answer to the same problem. I added a limiter to my master track and it bounced at full volume. Not sure why, but it worked.