Tracks being too loud or too quiet when mixing in Ableton.

[Wobbatha Christie Profile]

Hi, I was just wondering if anyone can share a few tips and techniques on evening out the sound levels on tunes when mixing in Ableton Live.
I'm having alot of problems due to different bit rates or tracks being to quiet or to loud, so is there anyway to sort this without doing the obvious and increasing and decreasing the volume?

Thanks in advance

[miskibaul Profile]

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*edit* dammit, why did you have to ruin all my fun by saying w/o increasing or decreasing the volume. (even though that is what you are talking about).
fuck it, im leaving it here.

[divtech Profile Website]

im not really sure what youre asking, make a song louder withought increasing the volume

if you mean without increasing the volume in ableton you could open it in audacity and change the volume there

if you mean making the song sound fuller or better withought raising or lowering volume you could be talking about equalizing or mastering, neither of which really change the volume but would still make tracks better sounding together, both are in the effects rack somewhere

in evening out the sound you could just mean trying to keep certian tracks from going over the little red threshold thing, then youd need compression so you can make a song still loud but without the distortion of too much sound in one place

hope that kinda helps :/

[the_machine Profile]

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[Wobbatha Christie Profile]

im not really sure what youre asking, make a song louder withought increasing the volume

if you mean without increasing the volume in ableton you could open it in audacity and change the volume there

if you mean making the song sound fuller or better withought raising or lowering volume you could be talking about equalizing or mastering, neither of which really change the volume but would still make tracks better sounding together, both are in the effects rack somewhere

in evening out the sound you could just mean trying to keep certian tracks from going over the little red threshold thing, then youd need compression so you can make a song still loud but without the distortion of too much sound in one place

hope that kinda helps :/

Yeah mate, making the sound fuller was what I meant, I'll try the compression idea, thanks lot.