[LAU] Ardour: exporting woes

[Fons Adriaensen]

On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 05:06:37PM -0400, jonetsu at teksavvy.com wrote:
 
> This is a soft piece recorded in Ardour.
> 
> The mix on the master bus sits at around -15dB.  That's how it is
> recorded and it sounds currently nice like this.  There's room,
> nothing is pushed forward in the ears of the listener.
> 
> After exporting, it sounds like heavy metal, so to speak.  So much
> that there's distortion in the same monitors, at the same volume,
> that were playing the piece so nicely a minute ago.  No more
> room, no more breathing.  Smack.

The default export format has the 'normalisation' option on.
$(GOD) knows why.
 
> 1) Is -15dB on the master bus something completly silly ?

No.
 
> 2) If so, how to remediate the currnt recording ?

Edit the export format, disable normalisation, save.

 
Ciao,

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