i've noticed alot of peoples' songs who use reason to produce are much louder than mine, and I want to make my tracks louder, so I was wondering if anybody could offer any advice...

Turn up the master output volume on the mixer, or when you go to export it to mp3, amplify it using something like Audacity.

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if the master output is cranked up all the way, try putting a maximizer on the mixer and cranking the volume up. As for distortion of sound quality, sometimes this will happen if you turn it up REALLY loud, but if you're just using patches you should be fine.

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Well, all I'll say is that louder isn't doesn't always translate into better. If you haven't already try looking up on some books or guides on the web about the at least the basics of mixing.

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I think what he's saying is that he has already mixed it but its just really quiet

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Compression is what is needed to make it louder without distorting. But you can only compress so much or it will distort. I don't use Reason's compressors that much so I'm not that familar with how good they are. I usually use the Waves L2 plugin when I mix down to Sound Forge. But I totally agree with SG, louder is not always better.

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a good trick is to bang a vocoder onto your main mixer and stick it into equalizer mode and then either use it to find out where the quiet spots on your frequency range are and track them back to your instruments or just be lazy and boost the ranges from inside the vocoder. I'm guessing your midrange hasn't got enough presence if your level meters say you're up to max and it still sounds quiet, but what do I know, I'm just guessing.

Oh, be careful! The vocoder in equalizer mode makes the sound very strange. Even if you don't tweak any of the band faders, it sounds very different to the original signal. Listen to the difference, when you turn the vocoder with initial band settings to "bypass" and back to "on".
I'd just use the vocoder to watch the spectrum and find possible leaks or peaks, but never to equalize the master signal!

Like he said, using the vocoder to equalize your final mix is very lazy.

not only is it lazy, but it really does make a huge difference in the sound quality. try changing the number of bands on a vocoder on the main mixer on a song you've made and listen to how it changes. pretty big difference

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