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miki 
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I have a problem, I'm making with reason, when I'm making some song ... bass, synth, drums, ok they are but the audio out is clipping almost always, ok that's not the problem, i tryed to stop this cliping, i did ... but then the song lost its volume ...
And I heard many song with no clipping and they are quite loud ...
how can I fix it??? 
Thanx for answer
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24-12-2004 23:15 |
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peet
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dude final mixes of songs are supposed to be rather low to mid volume to avoid any clipping. the reason that most of the music you hear has such, so to say, 'high volume', is that it's limited.
get yourself something like t-racks (http://www.t-racks.com/) and get your tracks limited.
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24-12-2004 23:30 |
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Surya
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How I do it:
- lower the volume in Reason till it doesn't clip
- render to .wav
- open the .wav in Audition (=Cool Edit)
- normalize
- play the track in a part with lots of bass and see how much the meters fall back between hits. Mostly this is between 3db and 6db
- select the enitre track and use the hard limiter filter with thse settings: limit to: 0, boost by: (the amount of db you saw in the previous step or 1db less), lookahead: 7, release time: 100.
This way you can boost the volume quite a bit without clipping or destroying the dynamics of the track.
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25-12-2004 11:21 |
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spudleyq
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i purposely destroy the dynamics.........sometimes i get odd peaks that peak out waaaay higher than i like it.......so that maximizing/normalizing will only push the waveform to those odd peaks.......so i actually mess with the dynamics and give it a soft clip......then when i maximize it.......it's to the loudness!!!
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27-12-2004 13:32 |
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Surya
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The hard limiter in Audition takes care of the peaks 
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27-12-2004 20:09 |
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spudleyq
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yeah.........i pretty much do the same thing.......just a different way
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27-12-2004 20:56 |
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djfreemc
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As allready said here, lower volume, render, normalize, cut off peaks with a limiter, normalize once more. That should do it.
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27-12-2004 21:06 |
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miki
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Thanks guys!!! I'll try it. 
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MiKi
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28-12-2004 16:23 |
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zebediah
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Try cutting some unwanted frequencys with a hi pass or low pass filter. There's a program called Cool Edit Pro that has a great Scientific Filter for that kinda ting.
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