We are the music makers - producers?

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SteadyCam

Pretty sure i've asked this somewhere before but does anyone know how to boost (master?) as dj mix in Audacity? There was an easy way to do it on a PC but i'm using a mac now. Basically i'm looking for an easy and repeatable way to level out the audio and amplify it before saving as an mp3. Cheers.

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Dramatic_Hammer in reply to @SteadyCam

If your mix is using commercially released tracks and is fairly even volume wise, just normalise to -0.3dB. This will take out the headroom you hopefully left whilst recording without changing the sound/feel of the mix. If you have big volume changes then the correct thing is to automate the track volume after normalising. Using a good limiter will work but you lose dynamics and if you push it too hard the mix will 'pump' unpleasantly.

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SteadyCam in reply to @Dramatic_Hammer

I generally try to keep a pretty even volume throughout the mix. I'll try to normalise to -0.3dB and see how that works. It sound similar to something i've tried previously, there's just so many different ways to skin a cat. Thanks for your help.