Richard,

One trick I use to get my tracks louder and balanced is to use a hard limiter on the finished WAV file and drop the peaks back by some amount like -3 db. Then amplify the whole track by the same amount bringing the newly reduced peaks back up to 0 db. You can pick any level of limiting you want and try it. Start out with -3 db and -6 db.

The purpose of this is to leave the dynamics in most of the song the same, but reduce the volume of the occasional note that is way louder than the rest of the track. Those loud peaks sit at 0 db and hold the rest of the song down. It is possible to have one loud strum hold down everything else on the track.

Colin

Colin

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