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Let's say you just finished a mix, now you want to share it with everyone but you want it to sound very professional and nice and loud (but not too loud)... Let's also say that you were on point with the recording and there really aren't any overly loud parts to the mix, it's relatively well balanced as far as volumes go. (Frankly you gotta be really good to have that kind of luck, there always seems to be one or 2 tracks that are too loud compared to the rest of the mix that you don't even notice until you hear the recording.) Last thing... You were smart and you didn't clip any songs they all live happily below zero DB. What do you do next?? Here's the problem I run into. Sometimes, with certain genres, (like a rock mix for example) you want to have quieter parts for the natural crescendo effect. With those kind of mixes I am careful to not compress the whole mix. Other times, (like with a heavy Techno mix for example) you want all the songs pretty darn loud and fairly close in volume. Those are the times I use my Wave Hammer plug-in to drop all volumes to -6 db and then it maximizes the entire mixes volume. IMO, this can cause listener fatigue, sometimes people want highs and lows, not all one conformed volume throughout. Do you normalize? Do you normalize first, or second after adding compression, or does it matter which order you do it in? After you master the wav file, do you again remaster it differently for the mp3 file that online listeners will hear? It seems to me that I have to tweak the mix slightly after changing the file to mp3, I usually ad just a touch more bass before uploading it to the world. What are some of your tips? How do you do a loud but not overly loud mix? Do you maximize it all or do you leave the wav files in their natural state without any compression?
