Getting a nice high sample level

I read a post about getting nice high sample levels and I'd love to re-read it..anyone know a link?

Sorry to post a similar theme but...

I normalise drum sounds to 0db in Wavelab and load 'em on the 500. In 'load' I hit 'play' to preview and the level sounds nice (like the demo samples)....but then play the pad and the volume is roughly halved. Even when I roll the sample volume up from '70' to '100' it's no way near the volume of the preview when I hit 'play'. At first I thought it must be another sample setting that I hadn't switched (like changing the volume from 70 to 100) but it's not, I tried.

Does anyone normalise more than 0db? ..or know any tricks to loud sounds?
I'm a bit obsessed by this because I used to use cassette and needed loud sounds to cover the hiss! I know there's no hiss to cover but it helps to have a standard method to get everything loud-ish and normalising to 0db on my laptop isn't doing it for me.

Thx

Tex

Or an effect set to the pad like an eq that takes some of the sound away? I don't think I've ever experienced this problem when the solution wasn't fixing the settings of a pad. It should play at the volume it's saved as. Try normalizing it in Trim mode?

i'll check out my pad settings after work

THANKS HUGELY!!

Well if tape hiss is the problem, you should try filtering. I use cassettes and filtering always works.

I'm having a similar problem. In [TRIM] mode, the volume of the sample is roughly twice that of the same sample in [SEQUENCE] mode. Any suggestions?

Thanks a lot.

SpencerBlues wrote:I'm having a similar problem. In [TRIM] mode, the volume of the sample is roughly twice that of the same sample in [SEQUENCE] mode. Any suggestions?

Thanks a lot.

Is full level on? It might just be playing as hard as you're hitting the pad.

Thanks for the reply, but no, I have the level range set to 0. That is, I have it set to ignore the velocity with which I hit the pads. Light or heavy, it plays at half the volume of the [TRIM] setting. Any other suggestions?

Thanks again.