How to use garageband on mac to mix songs youtube. You can raise or lower the volume of a track at specific points to simulate a crescendo or decrescendo, to make specific tracks fade in or out, or even to hide a bad note by lowering the volume in the track at that moment.To set an automation curve for Track Volume, follow these steps.

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When I’ve taught friends to DJ, one of the things I try to get across early is the importance of matching the levels of the two tracks being mixed. A sudden big drop in the volume is a surefire way to lose energy on the dance floor – or even clear it if you’re really unlucky! The way Traktor handles metering and the labels on its volume controls can lure you into making a real mess of your levels.

When I first realised this on switching from CDJs and an analogue mixer to using Traktor and a sound card, it prompted me to take a deeper look into the best way to get the level right. Today I’m going to explain why turning the master volume down in Traktor is essential if you mix “in the box”, ie in internal mode – which if you use a DJ controller, is exactly what you do.

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The problem:

You may have already run into this problem. You’ve just dropped a dancefloor-filling track, but when you try to smoothly bring in the next tune, it’s too quiet. Faders and the main volume control are already all the way up, and there’s nowhere left to go. If you’ve got the master limiter disabled, turning the channel’s gain further just results in nasty distortion. If you do have Traktor’s master limiter switched on, you can crank the volume further, but at the expense of sound quality again.

The limiter is basically a compressor, which quietens down the loudest parts of the track, “filling out” the sound to give the impression of more volume. (You know you are hitting the limiter when the red lights on Traktor’s output meters come on.)

As most dance tracks released these days are already heavily compressed, adding further compression is not a good idea if you want your set to sound good (see the Loudness Wars video for more info on the effects of over-compression).

The solution:

I’ll explain the whys and wherefores in a moment, but here’s the simple solution to the problem:

1. Turn Traktor’s master output control down – somewhere around -10dB works well (assuming you have a decent sound card)
2. Turn the gain on the amp or analogue mixer you’re plugged in to up to compensate if necessary – this will give you plenty of headroom, so when you drop that track that hasn’t been mastered quite so loud, you can crank up the channel gains in Traktor without worrying about distortion

Tip: If you can, sound check before your set with a track that you know is quiet – make sure it sounds loud enough and that you aren’t clipping (driving into the red) the in-house equipment that you are hooked up to.

Why it works…

The key to understanding what’s going on here is to understand what the “0dB” setting means in Traktor. dB (short for “decibel”) is a relative measure of volume – it tells you the difference between two levels.

Many analogue mixers have “0dB” marked on the VU meter – this usually corresponds to 0dBV, which means it is measuring the difference between the current level and an output voltage of 1 volt. You can push the level above this and still get a nice clean output from most mixers – on the best ones, up to +20dB on the mixer’s output meter.

But in Traktor, 0dB means “maximum output”. If you are using a good DJ sound card (or controller with a decent one built-in), this could mean you are putting out up to a walloping +20dBV. Leaving the master gain set to 0dB in Traktor is like turning every control on your mixer right up to maximum at the start of your set. Not a good idea. So why would Native Instruments choose to mark the gain control like this? Well, it’s actually fairly common for digital equipment to designate 0dB as the maximum output. If you had auto gain turned off and were using Traktor in external mixer mode, sending each tune out to your sound card at maximum volume wouldn’t be such a bad thing, as most DJ mixers can handle a pretty hot signal coming in.

Why use -10dB?
Earlier I suggested -10dB as a good setting for your master. There are a couple of reasons why.

The first is simply experience; I’ve found this gives enough headroom to level match tracks without slamming into the limiter. If you play lots of older tracks you might find you need to use an even lower setting.

The second reason is related to the actual output voltage you are sending to the next thing in the audio chain. If you’ve every played on a big system with a sound engineer, you’ve probably been asked to “keep it out of the red” – ie to stick to a maximum of 0dB on the mixer. A clean 0dBV signal allows the guy running the system to crank it up to full volume without worrying about it being destroyed.

I use a Motu UltraLite sound card which has a maximum output around 17dBV, so in theory I should set my master output in Traktor to -17dB or lower in order to give a real output of 0dBV. If I was hooking my sound card up directly to a pro amplifier or a big sound system, that’s what I would do. In most cases though, digital DJs hook up their kit to one of the mixer inputs. DJ mixers are usually optimised these days for the relatively hot output level from a Pioneer CDJ (around 6dBV). Bringing the master level up in Traktor to -10dB with my set up gives a similar level on my mixer as I get with a CDJ.

Remember…

The key thing to take away here is that 0dB in Traktor really means maximum output. Using a master setting of -10dB (or even much lower) will give you a fighting chance of keeping the levels kicking on the dancefloor without distorting.

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• This was a guest post by Colin Brown, who is a DJ with over 10 years’ experience, and who is also system tech for the Babble Collective Soundsystem.

Do you have level problems when using Traktor to DJ out and about with? Have you battled with a sound engineer about how the settings should be? Let us know in the comments.

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• You might as well go ahead and split the file size at the largest possible amount, you probably wont go anywhere near that big, but why not, its not really important. And that gain thing in the upper right corner by where you start the actual recording, you should turn that up a bit or the recording will be very quiet. But before you do any actual recording, do a test run with different parts of a song like the intro and the big drops just to make sure everything sounds right.

  niu02kevin, post: 37680, member: 8306 wrote: 1) All of my music I dj with is in AIFF format. I know Traktor will record in wav. This will maintain premium sound quality, right?

  Yes. Of course you should perhaps test it a little. Just record a minute of audio as if you were mixing…so you get your settings within Traktor down. You should also have some kind of audio editing software like Audacity or Sound Forge so you can normalize, compress, whatever you like to do to maximize audio without distortion.

  niu02kevin, post: 37680, member: 8306 wrote: 2) Since I use lossless audio, the files will be quite large. How much time will I be able to put on a cd?

  80 minutes is the limit, but you’re better off staying safe at 74-76 minutes. Bear in mind also that sometimes it’s better to just do 60 minutes…not because of some limit on a CD, but for how much the human ear and mind can tolerate. Long mixes tend to sound draggy and thus attention gets lost. If this is a demo, you want to start and end things with the listener on a high note…so they love it and remember it.

  niu02kevin, post: 37680, member: 8306 wrote: 3) Any restrictions on uploading certain audio formats/file sizes to Soundcloud?

  They take most formats…but you’ll run into issues with mixes. They’ve been cracking down on DJs uploading mixes and even mashups/remixes. Use a service aimed at DJs like MixCloud or MixCrate. Unfortunately there they do have file size limits…so you’ll have to turn your file into a lower quality MP3.

  Still, all the mixes I put online are 192 kbps. I know audiophiles would hate this, but I have to also think of convenience. Mixes, especially in wav or flac form, will take loads of time to download and loads of space in someone’s MP3 player. I still get great sound at 192.

  niu02kevin, post: 37680, member: 8306 wrote: 4) I know to keep the VUs out of the red to prevent clipping. Even if my recording is a little quiet, I can go back and make adjustments in something like Audacity, right?

  I usually let my VU bounce in the middle for normal play and let it grow when I’m blending tracks. I’ll go into Sound Forge (or Audacity in your case) and then normalize each channel, then use the wave hammer on each channel. I don’t go overboard, just a small amount to maximize volume without distortion. Don’t worry about “hiss”, it’s not like we’re recording to tapes.

  niu02kevin, post: 37680, member: 8306 wrote: 5) Any other advice as far as settings/preferences are concerned (latency/sample rate)?

  I usually do 44,100 for sample rate.

  niu02kevin, post: 37680, member: 8306 wrote: 6) I will want to split the file size at 2048MB, right?

  That works. Bear in mind the more you split the more you spend in Audacity piecing them together. However, think of your laptop and setup. You don’t want to crash and have your work lost.

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