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Wow this W1 plugin just made my track 2 times louder and I can't hear any particular artifacts that I don't like. I've done the high pass filter before the W1 as you said.
Whoa, so this was a fast solution, thank you so much!

Midwayfair, your post served as a tutorial/guidelines for me to approach this topic later on with a bit more time and brainz. I will definitely do so. Great stuff everybody, thank you!

You never cease to amaze Jon. I will take these advices seriously and try to make the most out of what I have at hand. There's much more to this than I had expected. It's both a good and a bad thing I suppose haha. THANK YOU so much.

Hi guys, I have recently recorded a song in rehearsal with my band, got 8 channels and mixed them together using my limited but somewhat existing knowledge of Cubase. It sounds pretty good to my ears, it should serve for band promo purposes so quality is not really the issue right now. But I have an issue with the end volume, it is so so much quieter than commercial music. I tried adjusting gain and there is some space to do that before clipping but still nowhere near enough.

What should I do? What are your preferred ways, either conceptually or in practice (which plugins) to handle this? I've read in some places that it all get's down to limiters and compressors in the end, and EQ of the bass content. But it's no use when I don't know where to begin!

I know there's lots of knowledgable people here so I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction. Thanks!

P.S. I should've explained the sort of music we do, because I reckon the approach to mixing and production varies wildly from genre to genre. We play alternative rock with fuzzed out guitars, strong drums, distorted bass and shouting vocals. So, yeah, it should, you know, sound loud haha.

whoa. WHOA!!!!!!
Incredible.

that looks rad!!

Awesome stuff! Those are great choices and Aion is a great place to buy from

Ditto on that. Just amazing people all around. I am glad I have started this topic.

Just bumping this :-D

I also get a weird behavior with my Sunking when there is a germanium diode in there, it starts chopping the sound like a tremolo but only on the fattest notes, I'll do a sound sample of that as well, it's pretty crazy, almost cool haha.

Yes, regardless of the gain level, and it doesn't help that I max the gain...
No, it happens only when both are on, when only one of them is on all is fine and no noise is heard no matter the settings on each pedal.

The Harbinger is powered by the charge pump, and I've tried putting the pedals at separate power supplies and it was the same thing. The Harbinger is in a 2in1 which also has RobA's Hyperbolic fuzz in there. Just sayin. Shouldn't matter though, I think.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B--6F_4JB7SYZTlCcU93MmhtT1k/view?usp=sharing

You can here how it sounds. It's in the rate of the rate of my Harbinger's LFO.

Now, this only happens when I am in the normal component values of the Klon (Sunking). I have a switch that takes me to a component change, the 390pf from the feedback loop gets changed with a 47pf. I've stumbled at this by accident and I can't live without that sound, it makes so much difference to me. Brian explained it best:



So, when in this mode (C8 = 47pF) I get oscilations and whine like on the soundclip. When not (c8=390pf) - I get no whine.

What I want is to somehow remedy this. Any ideas? I gotta resolve this, I just love using them together and I can't get away from the C8=47pf sound.

Help!

awesome responses people, enjoying reading through the thread

Probably a somewhat whacky way to start a topic, and my absolute apologies to guys who had probably experienced hearing loss or impediment at some point, but I frequently find myself thinking about this: how come that we still haven't come up with a way to provide complete silence via some gadget or something?

I mean hear me out. To me it looks like something that should be as standard as medicines sold in pharmacies. Imagine a gadget or liquid or whatever, that would give you complete silence, and complete rest. I don't have a newborn baby, that is not why I'm writing this but I often am in a situation where I would just love to be able to completely tune out without putting a restraint to someone's freedom, for example, when I get home from work I want to be able to rest and my GF wants to crank some music, and we live in a small apartment, so it's impossible for me to have some rest without reducing her freedom to crank the music up (she relaxes like that, I relax by...well relaxing, in a horizontal position haha). Then there's traffic, of course, then loudness coming from the neighbours (sometimes at 1 or 2 a.m. in an apartment above mine, right) so that frustrates me... and so on and so on. So many situations. So without having to reduce the freedom of others, without smashing the head of my inconsiderate neighbour with a sledgehammer, without...getting frustrated, wouldn't it be easier just to tune out and enjoy your peace?

This took a ranting route although my motivation for writing this hadn't been related to that haha. But seriously, wouldn't that be like the prefect product for a modern day man (and woman, obviously)?

What are the obstacles? I know there are so many smart people here, scientists even, so I would like your take on it. I posted a similar thing to Quora but got nowhere with it. I know that sound is about waves right, and a simple earbud is simply not gonna stop those, reduce maybe, but never entirely. And they can be uncomfortable to wear.

A silly topic if you will, but I'd love your take on it and whether or not you feel your life would be in any way bettered by being able to tune out completely whenever you want. Cheers!

Hahaha yes, they are awesome :-D

http://www.guitarwank.com/podcast/

A wonderful podcast brought to us by some of the top cats in the blues/jazz/fusion guitarosphere - Scott Henderson and Bruce Forman. Not sure how widely popular these cats are on this forum, but personally I would cite Scott being my musical idol.
Bruce Forman is a legend, a dude who played with Dizzy Gillespie for example.

They talk about a variety of topics, and a lot of em has to do with tone and gear and all that. But a lot of it is just general music wisdom. Really some top-notch stuff in there. To the uninitiated - some bad jokes may run through - you'll have to live with it Scott can be very spitfiery and weird at times

There. I hope someone will be happy to hear about this as much as I've been since I've discovered it. Cheers!