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  1. Thanks everyone for sticking this out with me. Sorry I got a bit testy. There are just a lot of things I love about Logic but I've always found the transition frustrating for whatever reason. I had to force myself to mix this project in Logic because I'm tired of putting it off. David, you're right... "doesn't get the same level out of Logic (when the song is peaking close to 0 dB FS) as he could get out of Pro Tools (when the song is peaking close to 0 dB FS)"... and I would add that in order to peak close to 0 in Pro Tools I have to do heavy limiting or compression, whereas I do no limiting and little compression in Logic and I'm metering above 0 this is why I feel like its a setting or preference or something. I'm interfacing with an apogee ensemble, the main out going into my central station is at full volume. In logic I'm using the Level plugin under Metering (I think)... in pro tools I believe the plugin is a bombfactory master meter. They seem to do the same thing... but the only time my meter in pro tools gets even above -10 is when I'm slamming it with a limiter... never from just mixing hot. And yes I do mix hot. I usually only leave my mastering guy a couple db of headroom, I guess I'm a control freak that way. I know a lot of really good mixers that do the same thing and yes I know all the technical reasons I shouldn't do that, so save your breath I will say that my Pro Tools rig is HD, maybe that makes some difference, but it shouldn't change the game that much, right? Also, I do sum analog sometimes and can assure you that's not the answer here, in fact it likely makes my problem worse. Luckily for this mix I'm completely "in the box" with a few nice Waves plugs.
  2. If anyone out there understands my question and is not interested in being condescending, please respond. I am a professional producer and mixer with a simple question. I'm interested in possibly moving my operation over to logic so I want to understand more. The problem is not that my mixes aren't loud enough or that they are distorting. They actually sound good. I just want to know where I am in relation to zero when I send it to master. If I send my mastering guy a mix that's +5 like my meters are showing I'm going to have issues. I'm not talking about the little meters beside my faders either. I'm talking about plugins that I assume are supposed to give me the information I seek.
  3. But this is going into the red before I ever have any compression or limiting on the final output. Where in pro tools I would be measuring at like -15 in logic I'm metering at or above 0. I certainly understand the difference between mixing and mastering, this is not an issue of me not knowing what I'm doing. It is an issue of me not understanding my meters in logic. If it makes the discussion easier. Let's say I'm mastering a song in logic. My waveform is not square but my meters are in the red before I ever add limiting. Does logic just have that much less headroom than pro tools?
  4. What I'm saying is that it's not up to comparable volume yet it is still metering in the red. I normally put a limiter on the final bus to get enough volume so the client doesn't have to turn it up twice as loud as everything else in his cd player to get the same volume. This is a common practice in my experience. So my question is... why does my meter go into the red when it's still at half the volume of what it will eventually be? I feel like the meters aren't telling the whole truth. I'm actually asking a very practical question.
  5. I'm a Pro Tools user mixing a project in Logic. It seems that my stereo mix has little headroom before it goes into the red. I mean, I can have my mix in the red and it still isn't up to volume when I check it against other mastered material. In Pro Tools I don't have this problem, if my overall output is at O I'm actually at 0 or close enough. If I want to send the mastering guy a -3db mix I can dial that in. What am I missing in Logic to be able to meter this way. I'm guessing it's a preference somewhere? I'm using a bombfactory meter set to peak in Pro Tools. I've been using the meter plugin in Logic, is this wrong? Macbook Pro, OSX 10.6.4, 2.8GHZ Inter Core Duo, 4GB RAM, Logic 9.1.1, Lacie SATA 1 TB 7200 RPM HD, Apogee Ensemble
  6. don't we all wish this was possible! but unfortunately its not
  7. Bump... I had it listed as error 1023 and corrected it, late night ? ':?'
  8. I've never had this problem before. Logic won't recognize my Digidesign HD hardware, it says the hardware already in use (but it's not). Then my session comes up and all the plug-ins are crossed out. I pretty much lost half a day trying to chase this down. I have a session coming up in a day that I can definitely not do in PT because I don't have any good software instruments in PT. Someone please help!! LP8.0.1, Mac Pro, Digi HD3
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