Hi All
I have now been doing some mix down;s to stereo wav files in SAW of my first couple of songs to take them around to hear them
that being said i have been using Tracks-24 for a bit to just tweak my mix. Tracks is a software mastering suite that is what i could afford and is fun for me to use. i, of course, don;t pretend to be any type of ME
anyway when i drop my WAV file in it it runs to about -8 to -4 or so depending on the song. when i set the hard limiter to -1DB it of course cranks and gets much louder. my question is this
am i just falling into the loudness wars thing by cranking it that high? what level should i limit the song too?? what is the standard most use??
tracks runs the signal thru an EQ ->limiter ->comp
but i am just wondering about the limiter, and any comp setting to try would be great, eq i leave to my ears at this point
thanks!