FL Users. Question

[Fly]

I just made my first beat. When I play it back in FL Studio the beat is damn near clipping in some parts but when I render and upload to soundcloud the volume is WAAAAAY lower, to the point where I have to turn my volume to the max on both my cpu and soundcloud just to barely hear the beat.

What do? I've tried rendering in both wav and MP3. Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

[King Musa]

Which sound driver are you using? Primary sound driver? Asio?

 

[Propaganda]

I just made my first beat. When I play it back in FL Studio the beat is damn near clipping in some parts but when I render and upload to soundcloud the volume is WAAAAAY lower, to the point where I have to turn my volume to the max on both my cpu and soundcloud just to barely hear the beat.

What do? I've tried rendering in both wav and MP3. Any help is greatly appreciated.

as a basic fyi to you and everyone else - soundcloud (and every other streaming site) has it's own algorithm/compression/conversion-to-192kmp3/whatever. so it's pretty much never gonna sound the same way, even if you uploaded it straight up as it a .wav. not only does it save them space but they're also all trying to get even levels/dynamics across the board. so you can play your track, then say a soft rock track, than a metal track back-to-back-to-back without the listener having to fukk around with the volume.

as a matter of fact, that's exactly why shyt is starting to trend away from the whole volume wars era. that was engineers trying to make shyt "bang" as hard and loud as it could on systems without getting ugly distortion. but music is consumed totally different now...it's not listening to cds on car systems and big home stereos and all that, it's listening to streaming playlists on earbuds and laptop speakers and shyt.

 

[Fly]

as a basic fyi to you and everyone else - soundcloud (and every other streaming site) has it's own algorithm/compression/conversion-to-192kmp3/whatever. so it's pretty much never gonna sound the same way, even if you uploaded it straight up as it a .wav. not only does it save them space but they're also all trying to get even levels/dynamics across the board. so you can play your track, then say a soft rock track, than a metal track back-to-back-to-back without the listener having to fukk around with the volume.

as a matter of fact, that's exactly why shyt is starting to trend away from the whole volume wars era. that was engineers trying to make shyt "bang" as hard and loud as it could on systems without getting ugly distortion. but music is consumed totally different now...it's not listening to cds on car systems and big home stereos and all that, it's listening to streaming playlists on earbuds and laptop speakers and shyt.

cool but my shyt sounds significantly lower than any other beat on soundcloud. thats the problem

 

[Propaganda]

cool but my shyt sounds significantly lower than any other beat on soundcloud. thats the problem

try cutting above 15k, and then set your limiter at like -1dbfs (to avoid inter-sample peaks or use a limiter that detects them) and render it in 16 bit 44.1 wav, then upload it.

check all your audio settings on your computer and your daw and everything too.

 

[mortuus est]

as a matter of fact, that's exactly why shyt is starting to trend away from the whole volume wars era. that was engineers trying to make shyt "bang" as hard and loud as it could on systems without getting ugly distortion. but music is consumed totally different now...it's not listening to cds on car systems and big home stereos and all that, it's listening to streaming playlists on earbuds and laptop speakers and shyt.

ive given up with the loud wars tbh, i make everything loudish now cause it seems thats whats popping