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Originally Posted by hannuala
5. When the virtual instruments are created, they are being recorded naturally with -24 dB signal level, thus giving the users 24 dB to compress it louder and mix the songs before the sound clips and becomes distorted. THIS IS WHY you feel the sound being poor ar this step.
6. Insert your favourite compressor to the piano track and add about 6-10 dB of gain, no more.
Hope this helps. I'm a professional pianist.
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Hannu
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You may be a professional pianist but these two steps are wrong. Don't know where you got your info but vi's are not recorded at that level but at a level so that the loudest sounds don't clip.
You also don't compress sounds to make them louder. You compress a track (if necessary) to even out wild levels to make things sit better in a piece of music. Sure you can crank a compressor's output level to make things loud but that's what lead to the volume wars.