Re:Adjusting volume on all tracks.
2011/08/16 02:16:23
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Take them all in one project as stereotracks and do the mastering settings there.
It's not hard to make the loudest sounds equal by normalizing to somewhere -1- -0,3 dB, but it doesn't mean they'll sound equal even though the level meter is showing equal levels. Getting the perceived volume sound about the same may require some patient EQing.
The song with the most middle frequencies ( which make most of the audible loudness) in relation to the lows (which push the meters up but don't sound so loud) will sound loudest.
Too much high frequencies is seldom a problem, IMO, because they sound disturbing when they're even a little too dominating, thus getting cut lower at an early stage.
Concentrate on the RMS levels, not peaks.
One nice tool in developing ones ear and eye in relation to frequencies/loudness is Har-Bal.
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