This difference is sometimes referred to as a tracks' dynamic range. The harder part will be ensuring your peak to RMS difference is AT LEAST 6dB This is easily done by slapping a limiter on your track.
Well there's about 2 or 3 phonebooks' worth of stuff you should really know about if you are attempting to master your stuff but to answer your question.yeah you should attempt to get close to the RMS of whatever reference material you like. Please remember that I am an English teacher by living and technical things are not my strong point, however, I could write you a poem about my confusion! Should I simply be mixing in a way to match the RMS to the reference track? And when finished should I make sure that I export it with the master volume set to 0DB?
If I want my track in Ableton to sound as loud as the reference track I can turn it up using these volume controls in the plugin but that surely is making no real difference to the loudness of my track in Ableton. However, their is the ability to adjust the volumes of the two sources in the plugin which is confusing me as this allows you to make one source louder than the other. I am using Glue Compressor to obtain a similar RMS between my track and the reference track. On Magic A/B by Samplemagic it displays the peak and RMS of the reference track and the sound I am producing in Ableton. If these things are basically right the confusion I have is this:. I think I understand that RMS it the overall volume of the track taking in the high and the low volumes (?) and the peak is the highest volume that a part of the track hits. and how compressing things to oblivion removes all the dynamic movement of the track. I have read a bit on the loudness wars etc.
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I'm using Magic A/B plugin to reference my tracks against pro produced stuff and with many things in this game it has thrown up more questions than answers.īearing in mind that I am an English teacher and not a Maths teacher can someone explain in simple terms how volume works.