MIR Natural volume setting

[j.dodd5_30106]

I am a bit confused by the Natural volume setting in MIR. If I set all the instruments to natural everything is far to low and I have to compensate by ramping up the variou instruments. Am I missing something? Anyone got any ideas what I am doing wrong?

[DG]

@j.dodd5_30106 said:

I am a bit confused by the Natural volume setting in MIR. If I set all the instruments to natural everything is far to low and I have to compensate by ramping up the variou instruments. Am I missing something? Anyone got any ideas what I am doing wrong?

No you're doing everything right. When you say "far too low" what are you comparing it with?

DG

[j.dodd5_30106]

When I play CD's etc. the volume setting is normally not more than 50% I have a good amp (Audiolab) and have never turned it up past that point. Thanks for the re assurance that I am doing it right.

[Dietz]

The Natural Volume feature has to offer considerable headroom for those few really, really loud instruments - that's why the individual volumes have to be kept on a comparatively low value for most other instruments.

You have two options:

1. As long as you use just one Master Bus for all instruments, just raise its Volume Fader to an appropriate value. If this doesn't offer enough amplification, you could additionally insert VE Pro's Matrix Mixer plugin for even more gain.

2. Alternatively, you can select all Instruments Channels and raise their volumes altogether as a Selection Group. The relative volumes will be kept intact.

HTH,

[DG]

Just to add to what Dietz has said, please remember that CDs are often "mastered" to within an inch of their lives. Ann orchestra just doesn't sound like this. If you want to compare the volume with CDs you should master your mixes.

DG