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…
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?
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.
This must be something configured at your DAW…
This headroom is good for mastering, thats why your DAW leaves it, but when exporting to MP3 there is no need of headroom anymore, right?
What DAW do you use to produce?
Again, when you exported to wav from your DAW you probably didn’t have normalize on and were mixing to a lower level or you had normalize on and didn’t have any sort of compressor/limiter on the master and a volume spike somewhere shrunk the whole thing during the normalize process, then when you converted it to mp3 the mp3 coverter normalized the volume level a little bit.
If you’re wondering why your tracks aren’t as loud as released tracks that have been mastered, it’s because your tracks haven’t been mastered yet and it would look closer to the right after the mastering process.