How to make songs in Traktor Pro 2 louder? (Wave-form wise)?
Hi I need help in making certain songs louder in traktor without turning up the gain. I have a couple songs in my library that I really want to play out, and they’re good quality but the audio levels of the tracks are super low. I dont want to crank up the gain cause it will just mess with my headroom and stuff. I need a software (preferably freeware) that will go in and make the tracks to their full potential w/o distorting it. For example, you can clearly tell when a song is going to be super low in Traktor when you load it up. The wave forms of the low sounding songs are wayyyy smaller than those of the super high quality “perfect” volume tracks. I attached a photo if you still dont get what I mean, but I really need help on this one. Anyone…helpppp please
I use “Platinum Notes” from “Mixed In Key” producers. Works really well! It goes through gain, dynamics, expansion, compression and pitch correction (for harmonic mixing). Though minor gain adjustments still needed from within Traktor from time to time. There are several settings/templates that can be downloaded from their website.
I don’t know what you mean by messing up your headroom, if the track is low the gain knob turns it up. Honestly, I don’t understand why people use “normalizers”, it takes 2 seconds to set the input gain for a track.
You are supposed to turn the gain up on the mixer for quiet tracks. Normalising the track will only degrade the sound quality and reduce the dynamics of the original song. How do you think people dealt with quiet records?
I use mp3gain to get my levels to roughly the right level before using them in traktor. Have been using it for about 8 years now, and no problems. And it’s also reversible if you ever needed to. Gain set at 96db.
This could be annoying though if the OP is one of those ever increasing DJ’s who relies on waveforms for his set - it is a shame the mixer gain does not increase the waveform size to reflect the new levels isn’t it, it’d be more accurate that the bloody mixer “VU”
Anyhow there cant be “that” many tracks in the collection with a gain issue. Just use Audacity to increase the volume ones if you REALLY need to by a few DB’s, I really don’t see the need for platinum notes / mp3 gain.
