Live track volume vs Audacity track volume
Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2024 5:36 pm
So I played this song I'm working on and one of its group tracks (the big percussion one) shows that, after playing the full song, its volume is at +5.56dB.
Thinking this was somewhat weird I rendered the group track and loaded it into Audacity where I figured out its volume was a very low -13.5dB.
The master track volume was also at -13.5dB so I guessed the group track must be very distorted but the master track's settings turned its volume all the way down to -13.5dB.
Not so. When I normalized the track to -5dB in Audacity there was no extreme distortion at all, just some fuzz that I like and like to keep, but definitely zero clipping of any kind.
So are the Live track's peak levels to be ignored because of them being totally inaccurate?
Thinking this was somewhat weird I rendered the group track and loaded it into Audacity where I figured out its volume was a very low -13.5dB.
The master track volume was also at -13.5dB so I guessed the group track must be very distorted but the master track's settings turned its volume all the way down to -13.5dB.
Not so. When I normalized the track to -5dB in Audacity there was no extreme distortion at all, just some fuzz that I like and like to keep, but definitely zero clipping of any kind.
So are the Live track's peak levels to be ignored because of them being totally inaccurate?