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Importing Mp3 Audio Issue
Hey guys, new to protools and mixing so please be easy.
My issue is when i import a song from itunes to play and record a drum cover over it always is too loud. The bar (sorry if i dont know the terms) stays peaking at red throughout the whole song causing distortion. Even when I lower the knob, although the noise level decreases, it still stays at peaking red level. Sorry if this is hard to understand. Any help would be appreciated thanks. Ps. Im running 7 mics through a saphire pro 40 with a firewire connecting to the computer if that means anything. Thanks. |
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Re: Importing Mp3 Audio Issue
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Re: Importing mp3 issue protools 10 (drum cover)
The file that you are playing drums over is distorting?
If you are on pro tools 10 or higher you can try lowering the clip gain. In the edit window there is a little picture of a fader in the bottom left corner of the clip. Click it with your mouse and you will see a fader pop up. Lower it and this will turn down the volume before the signal hits the main fader. You should see the waveform shrink as you lower the clip gain. Pt 9 or lower, you'll have to select the clip and open use the audiosuite gain plugin. I hope that helps (if i understood correctly) |
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Re: Importing mp3 issue protools 10 (drum cover)
Thanks for the quick responses guys. I tried lowering the fader and gain but not having any luck. I feel that im just doing a beginners mistake. I attached an img of what my mix looks like in the edit window. I've been trying to get it to not clip for the longest time. Even when i get the master fader down to the (-10,-6) range it still clips at times.
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Re: Importing mp3 issue protools 10 (drum cover)
Welcome to the world that is modern Rock / Pop Mastering.
Loud LOUD LOUD! I take it when you pull the fader down, the volume is reduced, it's just the metering that is staying pinned in the red? In that case you just need to set the metering option to "Post Fader". There's nothing actually going wrong, it's just the meters are currently displaying the level of the source, regardless of where the fader is set (pre-fader metering). Switch it to post fader metering, and you'll see the effect the faders are having - the track's "volume" will be the same regardless of how it's set. |
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Re: Importing mp3 issue protools 10 (drum cover)
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Re: Importing mp3 issue protools 10 (drum cover)
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Only in terms of final output. If for example you took your current backing track (which is already at the limits of clipping), inserted an EQ plug-in and started boosting the EQ, you'd be clipping the output of that plugin. You might follow it with other plug-in processors, all the time further distorting the signal with clipping. If you were to then attenuate the Master Fader, the output level would not be clipping, but the signal would still sound distorted and horrible. There are ways to get lazy, and not worry about this once inside the DAW (using 32bit floating point files) but I highly recommend you stick to 24bit fixed point files (at least until you understand the whole process thoroughly), and learn about gain staging - it has so many other advantages, but fundamentally will stop you getting in to trouble in the first place, as well as enabling you to troubleshoot problems, should they arise. |
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