Cleaning up a dj set
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    Hey,

    Does anyone have any tuts or routines to pass on for cleaning up/normalizing a dj set? match volumes, correct clipping, edits etc.

    Mucho apreciado

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    as far as normalizing goes, audacity does a pretty good job of it. It cant really help a redlined mixer, but, you can adjust levels of the tracks with the envelope tool pretty easily, and normalize will bring the overall volume to the right level.

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    i use sound forge 7 (old school version) and run it thru wavehammer
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    As long as you're levels are ok in traktor itself, clipping shouldn't be too much of a worry. Doesn't hurt running a check with SF or Audition tho. And yeah as mentioned above normalising is a good idea. You can also get fancy and put it through some vst's like vintage warmer and izotope vinyl. less is more imo
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    Why would you run a full mix through a warmer?
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    i just monitor my levels closely, am i not doing enough? lol

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    Thanks guys,

    I used soundbooth cs4 (what i had available). It's pretty good actually. did a few minor corrections to the mix & a hard limiter as final touch.

    Did get some clipping. I just wish the little record light in traktor (next to the clock) would be green when recording & red when clipping, cause I can't keep the record tab open all the time.

    cheers,

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