VOLUME EQUAL

peter

Running all tracks through ReplayGain is a standard process for me. But I only add the tags to the files and don't change the volume directly. This will get me in the ballpark when importing into ST3 and minor tweaks afterwards are still possible but not always necessary.

DaveT

Matt07ie this process does not adjust EQ settings, it's an overall gain level (volume/loudness) of the tracks. Storing settings within stagetraxx is not something that I do (such as gain and pitch etc), it's all done within isotope rx 10 and re imported into stage Traxx. I have put all my tracks into a sandbox, and applied the setting via the app Peter recommended, and so far everything sounds perfect. this weekend I will put them all onto a spare iPad and give them a run in a live situation, if im not happy then I can quickly go back to the standard iPad to continue the show.

MattH

Hi, it's so weird, I send Peter a message today about gain and he linked me to this thread.
I have created playlists, and added replay gain on Foobar2000, then imported into ST3.
I haven't done all ST3 songs yet, as there are so many...
Then import the gained file as a second track, then I look at the DB level and adjust it on the original in ST3, then delete the recent file.
Feels a bit time consuming, but maybe I'll do all in a batch when I have more time.
Some songs stay at 0, most change between +5 & +6.
Any other advice?

Damir

MattH Any other advice?

I never load a file to ST3 from anywhere without it being loaded in to my DAW first , I trim the beginnings and endings to be the same for all songs , instant start and allow for natural decay of ending sound then I apply a very fast fade out in last second of song to get rid of pops , then I get the song levels sorted by normalising the songs and sometimes limiting and compressing a bit just to get a good level without changing the dynamic range too much, I use one speaker system and consistent volume setting on my computer so my ears are the final judge I hardly never change my volume settings of my listening speakers so I can instantly hear if a song needs improvement in any way then you have your visual metering to confirm the end result , once I go through this early fast process I export to ST3 , I then know if all my settings on all my songs in ST3 are at zero I will get a very similar output level and then I can slightly tweak if necessary, the output of ST3 goes in to a nice Yamaha 10 channel mixer where the front trim is adjusted to bring all my levels from different sources to be the same then I choose to what goes wherever to suit my gig .
The point I am making if you just throw songs in to ST3 you will end up with a messy long job to fix things later , yes ST3 can adjust things to a certain point but I rather have all my files to be correct in the first place.

peter

Not sure I understand your workflow, but if you want to add ReplayGain to songs after they have been imported, you only need to overwrite the audio file in the Stage Traxx 3 folder and then open the song details view and tap on the reload button in the navigation bar. The volume should then be set to the calculated replay gain value.

If you volume is at +5 or +6 you should mix your tracks louder as Stage Traxx can not boost the volume more than 6dB.

curlyboy777

peter It’s too far down the line for me to do what’s recommended, as I have nearly 8 hours of backing tracks already in ST3. Would it be possible to include a ‘Normalise songs’, ‘drag-across’ slider, the same as per the current auto-play slider feature, in the ST4 version, end of next year, or whenever it comes out please Peter?

Damir

curlyboy777 ST3 is a player not an editor of audio , yes it has slight tweakability but you need to finelize your songs in a daw first even though they need no tweaking its good practice to double check your final audio files before you place them to ST3 folder, then you have a final little tweak there to fine tune if needed.
There is no easy fix if you dont do your homework properly in the first place.
Dont just download from websites and expect ST3 to fix things its not that sort of software.

peter

You could analyse your files with ReplayGain anyway and as the gain values can be displayed in for example foobar2000, you could just manually adjust the volume to match the values from foobar.

I don't plan to add a replaygain implementation to Stage Traxx as that is too complex and there is no existing library for iOS that I could use.

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