The waveforms of my tracks are small in Traktor
The waveforms of my tracks are small in Traktor Posted on: 28.02.2012 by Clarinda Schwimer Hi guys.Ok an interesting one....all my tracks when I load them into traktor....they all seem to have small waveforms compared to other tracks I have that I load in. And I cant figure out why..... Maybe I compress them too much, they arent loud enough or not loud in comparison to another. I dont know.... Any ideas? Edit..... P.S....Here is an example; http://soundcloud.com/essbeedee/essbeedee-loco Its loud enough, definitely...but there is something thats making the overall waveform smaller in Traktor..... | |
| Romelia Stankard 28.02.2012 |
Originally Posted by ESSBEEDEE
If you're wondering why your tracks aren't as loud as released tracks that have been mastered, it's because your tracks haven't been mastered yet and it would look closer to the right after the mastering process. |
| Romelia Stankard 28.02.2012 |
Originally Posted by ESSBEEDEE
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| Clarinda Schwimer 28.02.2012 | Hi guys. Ok an interesting one....all my tracks when I load them into traktor....they all seem to have small waveforms compared to other tracks I have that I load in. And I cant figure out why..... Maybe I compress them too much, they arent loud enough or not loud in comparison to another. I dont know.... Any ideas? Edit..... P.S....Here is an example; http://soundcloud.com/essbeedee/essbeedee-loco Its loud enough, definitely...but there is something thats making the overall waveform smaller in Traktor..... |
| Romelia Stankard 28.02.2012 |
Originally Posted by ESSBEEDEE
If you're wondering why your tracks aren't as loud as released tracks that have been mastered, it's because your tracks haven't been mastered yet and it would look closer to the right after the mastering process. |
| Romelia Stankard 28.02.2012 |
Originally Posted by ESSBEEDEE
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| Irwin Ney 28.02.2012 | This must be something configured at your DAW... This headroom is good for mastering, thats why your DAW leaves it, but when exporting to MP3 there is no need of headroom anymore, right? What DAW do you use to produce? |
| Clarinda Schwimer 28.02.2012 | Ah....that might have somethin to do with it...still strange that a wav shows up small but an mp3 is full size.... |
| Marshall Aby 28.02.2012 | Hmmm. Maybe it's a quirk of Traktor. It can store the gain level of the track in the MP3 tag, but it can't in the WAV. |
| Joselyn Supina 27.02.2012 | It almost looks like the track was normalized or had a limiter run on it before converting to mp3. It does look a little weird. However, looking at it again, the shape of the wav form looks the same...normally normalize or a limiter will blow the wave form out for the most part. Is there a gain or loudness function in Switch? I have no experience with that program. I use Max to convert, but usually just my mixes, never compared the two wav forms in traktor. |
| Clarinda Schwimer 27.02.2012 | I use a program called Switch to convert the tracks to MP3, its an audio converter for mac. And the Normalise option is turned off..... |
| Joselyn Supina 27.02.2012 | Do you normalize the track or do anything with a limiter before making the track an mp3? The mp3 looks like it's had Normalize RMS run on it. |
| Clarinda Schwimer 27.02.2012 | Ah ok I jus noticed something.....When i loaded in the WAV file it was small.....When i load in the MP3 its bigger....this is weird!!!!!! Here is a pic to show u what I mean http://i40.tinypic.com/foos2a.png WAV on the left, MP3 on the right. How weird!!!!! |
| Tatum Ansaldo 27.02.2012 | Looks fine, what exactly is the problem? In what way are they smaller? Maybe put up another pic of what another track that you believe is right looks like? |
| Clarinda Schwimer 27.02.2012 | Uploaded a picture for you guys... http://i39.tinypic.com/121ybkh.png |
| Tatum Ansaldo 28.02.2012 | picture? |
| Arica Wilmsmeyer 28.02.2012 | will seek for discussion very interesting!@ |
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