volume

[Eless]

need some help here, when i mix my sessions, they come out sounding great. all songs are balanced with each other, etc. but they are real quiet. i have to turn my speakers up quite a bit on a stereo to get good volume. but like i said, all songs are balanced. anyone know any way around this?

[KingFish]

you need to master your recordings.

do a search on "Mastering"

[toofly4asoundguy]

here is the cheap way of doing it. Put a compressor on the master fader, then turn the gain output up til it gets right up to the zero line without clipping or distortion. I had the same problem then i started doing this and have not had any problems since. Just be careful with it, make sure to monitor the whole song before saving.

[Jack Rabbit]

here is the cheap way of doing it...

Was having the same problem, then started putting compression on the master fader.

But what is the not-cheap way?

[Matt Whritenour]

if ur gonna do that at least put a limiter after the compressor and dither

[Chris Cavell]

Was having the same problem, then started putting compression on the master fader.

But what is the not-cheap way?

Have the song mastered by a competent mastering engineer...beware the pretenders...