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Why are my bounces so quiet?

Every time I bounce a track I've made to MP3, it's half the volume of how it sounds in Logic... I've mixed it, tried normalizing off/on, tried ramping up the output volume/master volume but nothing seems to work. Help please!!

Logic Pro X

Posted on Apr 29, 2015 9:34 AM

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Eriksimon

Level 6

15,416 points

Posted on Apr 30, 2015 3:56 AM

First make sure both your main output and your master fader are at unity (0 dB)

Are you using any metering, and if so, what does it say? If not, start doing that. You should at first aim for peaks around -3 dBFS, and for an RMS value of between -20 and -12 dBFS (depends on the genre).

If Normalizing is off (it should be) then your bounce will be as loud as you hear it. However, if it sounds quiter in iTunes, then iTunes is NOT set to unity gain (which is simply setting the slider to max)