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Alone, I'm happy with the levels of everything in my mix, and even my mix is a good volume, I'm just interested in how the professionals achieve so much loudness. If I play the snare on it's own in the track, at the same volume as the reference track it's way into the red, and I just don't understand how they can have such a loud mix with a snare thats already seemingly too loud, a nice clear kick drum, and so much warm low end, it seems impossible to me and yet I'm listening to just that. If I can't get the results I want I get too hung up on it, and it's bothering me that I don't know, and can't find how to make it happen.

The main thing I didn't understand is that the snare alone, if played at the same volume as the reference track is clipping hard, I found basically the same sample and EQ'd it to be as close as possible, the high's weren't too harsh, there was no real thumping mids, just a standard snare, but clipping, it just confuses me. Could that be down to not mixing on console?

I have tried that and still no luck really, I found several videos of Noah Shebib talking about certain parts of the process but never actually in detail, I'd love to see a video where they completely break down the process like they do with production videos, explaining what they're doing and why.

Thanks for replying, I've found it very hard to find videos on this subject, you can rarely find videos from the engineers but they aren't talking in detail about the things I want to achieve, they'll talk about their preferences for how they mix, but they won't actually run through what they do to achieve the results. Sorry for these amateur sounding questions, I can mix to a good level, I just can't understand how to push it so loud with so much clarity, so are you saying that mixing on console can achieve vastly different results? Because if thats the case I do feel a little better.

This is something that I've never been able to grasp, I've been making music for 10 years now, I've been to college and university and nothing I've ever learned comes close, I've looked at countless videos on youtube and I just can't figure it out, and I don't know where else I can try to get information about it. Basically, I can't for the life of me produce a track thats loud without peaking in the red, no technique I've ever tried has achieved anywhere near the loudness I'm aiming for but I know something must exist because you listen to most albums these days and they're very loud. I've been working a lot lately on making beats and it's proving more difficult than ever to achieve a loud mix when working with so much low end, but I listen to a song like "Teenage Fever" by Drake and if I didn't already know better I would say it's impossible to make a track so loud without clipping, and the version on Youtube doesn't do it justice either, the album version on iTunes is insanely loud, theres so much low end subby bass warmth and a lot of warm mid frequencies, and the snare just punches through so loud, and yet it all sounds so clean, now I've tried finding a similar sounding Kick and Snare and playing each completely on their own, without any other instruments or synths, at no where near the volume of that track, and they already peak way above 0db so how is it possible? It's the one thing thats always confused the life out of me, does anyone have any help on this subject because I really need it. Please help me out, thanks.

This doesn't happen on every project, but on certain projects when I'm previewing samples from the media browser bar Logic will just freeze up and become completely unresponsive, I force quit it and load back up, I go through a few more samples and then it freezes again, it's only started doing this quite recently, I've been using Logic for 8 years and this has never happened before. Does anyone know whats going on?