Achieving max volume before burning to CD

[gerrymcgill]

Hi All
Gerry here,Boss BR1200 user and very happy with it. I've just finished 12 songs , burned them to CD and sent them to be duplicated, 100 or so copies , by professional CD duplication company. They came back and said the overall volume of my tracks  was too low for quality reproduction( They sounded fine to me !!) and suggested I get them professionally re-mastered and "Normalised"
Any hints or tips as to how to achieve max volume without distortion or clipping on the final mix/master
Thanks in advance ,
Gerry

[SteveB]

GRY - Welcome to the Forum, and hope you enjoy your stay. One of the other Members produced a CD on his BR1600, and then had it 'Mastered' professionally and then the CD released. Here's a song from the CD (pre-release), and I'm sure that this Members could give you some pointers. Good luck.

https://songcrafters.org/community/index.php?topic=2955.0

[nathanclarke]

If you can upload the tracks to a pc you can then normalise in Audacity. Audacity is a free download DAW that can be found through google search. Just upload the files to your pc and then import one to audacity, then go effects and Normalise.  Something like that.

[gerrymcgill]

Thanks Steve and Nathan for your help....I listened to that "Samaanya" track and it really is good and well produced ....I am going to download Audacity as well and see if it will do the trick ...it's just a bit inconvenient ( and expensive) having to get the mastering professionally done....appreciate the replies from you both.
Gerry