The waveforms of my tracks are small in Traktor

[ESSBEEDEE]

Hi guys.

Ok an interesting one....all my tracks when I load them into traktor....they all seem to have small waveforms compared to other tracks I have that I load in. And I cant figure out why.....

Maybe I compress them too much, they arent loud enough or not loud in comparison to another. I dont know....

Any ideas?


Edit.....

P.S....Here is an example;



Its loud enough, definitely...but there is something thats making the overall waveform smaller in Traktor.....

[Ratergam]

will seek for discussion very interesting!@

[fullenglishpint]

picture?

[ESSBEEDEE]

Uploaded a picture for you guys...

http://i39.tinypic.com/121ybkh.png

[fullenglishpint]

Looks fine, what exactly is the problem? In what way are they smaller? Maybe put up another pic of what another track that you think is right looks like?

[ESSBEEDEE]

Ah ok I jus noticed something.....When i loaded in the WAV file it was small.....When i load in the MP3 its bigger....this is weird!!!!!!

Here is a pic to show u what I mean

http://i40.tinypic.com/foos2a.png

WAV on the left, MP3 on the right.

How weird!!!!!

[SpeshulEd]

Do you normalize the track or do anything with a limiter before making the track an mp3?

The mp3 looks like it's had Normalize RMS run on it.

[ESSBEEDEE]

I use a program called Switch to convert the tracks to MP3, its an audio converter for mac.

And the Normalise option is turned off.....

[SpeshulEd]

It almost looks like the track was normalized or had a limiter run on it before converting to mp3. It does look a little weird. However, looking at it again, the shape of the wav form looks the same...normally normalize or a limiter will blow the wave form out for the most part.

Is there a gain or loudness function in Switch? I have no experience with that program. I use Max to convert, but usually just my mixes, never compared the two wav forms in traktor.

[lethal_pizzle]

Hmmm. Maybe it's a quirk of Traktor. It can store the gain level of the track in the MP3 tag, but it can't in the WAV.