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What is the best way to preserve the audio quality and volume of a track after you have made an edit in arrangement view? Currently, after I make the edit, i will consolidate, set to complex pro and render the channel at 24 bit no dither. I also usually put a limiter on the channel with 0 input gain just to make sure there is no clipping. Is that the best way to do it?

Also, why does the clip gain change after consolidating audio clips?

Thanks!

You're better off setting Live's tempo to be EXACTLY the same as the audio file, keep warping off, then do your edits. Consolidating then will be the cleanest method, and since Live's normalizes all files it consolidates, you don't need the limiter either. This is why the clip volume changes, because Live has normalized the file and then adjust the clip volume to compensate. Once it's consolidated, then warp it for DJing.

thanks a lot for the reply! very helpful i was thinking about doing it this way.....i think ill probably just make the edit without warping and then just render without consolidating. I usually DJ using ableton, but I am trying out traktor 2 so i need to render the edits.

Thanks!