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Metalixia
04-28-2005, 11:02 AM
Hi,

I'm trying to record some stuff in audicity, but i've noticed what i record with the mic turns out fairly quite compared to say a cd quality song. how do i master the recording to make it louder?

Thanks

Lewis
airborne50caliber
04-28-2005, 11:56 AM
there's an amplify effect. also play with the gain structure of your studio
foxide_bass
05-03-2005, 06:31 AM
Do you find that on your Audicity, If you record several tracks, do they each play out of time with each other?

It happened on mine and I got rid of it after a while?
himynameistweek
05-03-2005, 09:01 AM
Do you find that on your Audicity, If you record several tracks, do they each play out of time with each other?

It happened on mine and I got rid of it after a while?
a lot of people have that problem. i never have. a lot of the time it seems to be problems with the equipment.
airborne50caliber
05-03-2005, 10:30 AM
its a latency problem and it is caused by a slow soundcard a/d converter, computer or other euipment. Solve it simply by dragging the tracks bakc into sync. I like to do this with an advanced program like final cut pro which has excellent track matching facilities rather than audacity.
Moseph
05-04-2005, 11:25 PM
Hi,

I'm trying to record some stuff in audicity, but i've noticed what i record with the mic turns out fairly quite compared to say a cd quality song. how do i master the recording to make it louder?

Thanks

Lewis

Mastering is a combination of careful EQ, compression, and maybe some leveling in a 2-track master mix. It's really hard. I suggest not worrying about matchng pro CD volume levels, especially for more recently pressed CDs (last 5-10 years or so). Just make your mixes sound as good as you possibly can. If you really want to have something mastered, you're beter off having an experienced mastering engineer doing it for you.
Benzum
05-05-2005, 02:30 AM
Mastering is a combination of careful EQ, compression, and maybe some leveling in a 2-track master mix. It's really hard. I suggest not worrying about matchng pro CD volume levels, especially for more recently pressed CDs (last 5-10 years or so). Just make your mixes sound as good as you possibly can. If you really want to have something mastered, you're beter off having an experienced mastering engineer doing it for you.

/steals avatar for future use :thumb:
/dont worry

I love Audacity, It gets me the best tone I can get and its incredibly simple to use....