Bounce from Logic is Distorted

[mylesp510]

I think his problem was that his master was clipping. I had this problem when I was a rookie too, the track sounded fine in my DAW but when I exported it, it was completely distorted haha! So I started lowering the volumes which made my music really low (like he said as well) and then guess what I discovered? Limiters…

uhm when i exported in realtime it fixed the problems i had. i use a l2 ultramaximizer on the master anyways

[laurend]

From what I know, enabling the normalization is good to avoid any clipping.

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IMHO L2 sucks

[mylesp510]

From what I know, enabling the normalization is good to avoid any clipping.

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IMHO L2 sucks

what do you use then?

[laurend]

I use my own limiting algorithm. I dislike all the Waves limiters. Fab filter, Flux, Sonnox are better. The normalization option makes any limiter useless. Just use a limiter if you're searching for high average level.

[mylesp510]

I use my own limiting algorithm. I dislike all the Waves limiters. Fab filter, Flux, Sonnox are better. The normalization option makes any limiter useless. Just use a limiter if you searching for high average level.

i was thinking of sonnox already.

[Bobcat]

From what I know, enabling the normalization is good to avoid any clipping.

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IMHO L2 sucks

I agree on both!

And yeah I was looking at the Fab Filter Pro-Q Equalizer not long ago and really liked it, I guess their other stuff must be good as well!

[Bryst]

Why would you use a normalizer, when you could just mix it properly yourself??

Just mix your tracks at a volume that is much much below clip. THEN after your mix has become as perfect as you can make it. You can raise the average volume in the mastering stage.

Why would you do it any other way? I'm confused... never heard of someone actually using a normalizer on something they wanted to sound professional (or as close to professional as is possible.)

[troublemaker$]

Umm, how would normalizing it help it if it's clipping? There should be no clipping in anyway on a master bounce, actually you should have some headroom so that way when you do Compress and Limit, there is enough room. also, your master can show no clipping when you are clipping in the compressor. At least that's been some issues ive came across and i never used normalize.

[laurend]

Why would you do it any other way? I'm confused... never heard of someone actually using a normalizer on something they wanted to sound professional (or as close to professional as is possible.)

The manual gain adjustment is a good solution. The normalisation does this job automatically by adjusting the gain in order to keep the highest sample value at 0 dBFS. So no distortion arises. Both solutions are clean about audio quality. Logic provides this normalisation option because it doesn't allow the 32 bit float format which is a safe solution to avoid clipping for mix/bounce/export as well.

[troublemaker$]

Lol, the safest way to avoid clipping is look in your mixer and watch your levels???