CD burning, mastering.

Hello,
I hope someone out there can help. I've recorded my music, laboured over the mix, run each track through Boost 11, to raise the volume and smooth it all out, and I'm happy with the sound. I've burned my CD and I've got my album, but there's a subtle problem!
 
The problem is that I would like to adjust the volume of each track slightly to have a consistent level throught the CD. There are 20 short tracks and I've gone back and made some tweaks to each individual track, but hearing each track in isolation like that doesn't really help.
 
I need some CD burning software that lays all the tracks out together, each with it's own little volume control, so that I can listen and manually adjust each track. I'm finding that the automatic volume control on CD burning software is not sophisticated enough to smooth out the slight differences.
 
Does anybody know of some software that can do this? It's seems like a basic idea to me but Ive tried many CD burning and music editing pieces of software and this simple function doesn't seem to exist!
 
Thank you for your time.

you can do that in SHS by importing tracks back into it like Michael suggests, or your CD burning software will usually have a function for that as well (but personally I don't trust those).

which burning software are you using?  there's usually a preference setting to to that.

CD Architect is really the best kind of software to do these types of tasks, but it's not cheap.

Thank you all for your replies and I apologise for accidently posting this query twice. My computer crashed and I thought the first post wasn't put up!

Yes, Slugbaby is correct. I used the wrong terminology, as my songs are instrumental I called them tracks. I've thought about how to use SHS but apart from ending up with a 43 minute song, it's not going to work.

In answer to Beagle, I've used a plethora of free CD burning software, al the usual ones and not so usual! But it seems, unsurprisingly, that I'll have to pay to get the one that does what I want. I'll have a look at CD architecture, but as my album (wrong terminology again, but it's my age!) is a one off it might not be worth it.

I'm now going to post a query about mastering.....

Thanks again.

Thanks Greg,
So simple! I'm now kicking myself for not thinking of this myself!

The problem with importing all of your songs into one project.. at least with Home Studio 4.0 is that all of your songs when you export them will the length of your longest song.. if they fixed that I stand corrected.  What I do is setup a new project using the Mastering template.  This template has the Cake effects loaded into the Master effects bin for that purpose.  I especially like the tape simulator effect. using the 15ips speed and EQ.  You can put a comp in the track effects bin as well, if you really want to squeeze the song.  Use the Master output meters as your standard to setup your levels.  Import each song into this template, then export when you get the songs sounding like you want.  By using the common "mastering" setup, you should have consistant levels for each song. 

mxz583


In 7 they will all be as long as the longest, so you have to select each one and export them individually

Mxz... in 4, even when you export them individually.. the songs are still as long as the longest song.. Before I figured out my other scenario.. I had to re-import each song into another project and edit out the silence at the end.. PIA for sure!

BD

Ok thats my fault i didn't realize you were using 4

bill durham

If you highlight a track aka song to export from a project and just that track.. it still exports as long as the longest song.

Don't highlight the track, just highlight the clip (i.e. by clicking on it).