[LAU] Ardour: exporting woes

[Len Ovens]

On Thu, 24 Mar 2016, jonetsu at teksavvy.com wrote:

> I see. I will experiment further.  The sound card DAC levels are at
> 0dB.  Set by the mudita24 utility for the 1010LT card.  One thing you
> mentioned is to lower down the volume after an export with
> normalization, whereas I expected to be the same as what I have mixed.

Looking at the 1010LT manual, I see that the jumpers are only for the two 
XLR connectors to set them Mic (-50ish) or line (+4). The manual then say 
that the i/o level can be set in the control panel (windows/OSx) to line, 
consumer or -10... that is +4, -4 or -10. I see that mudita24 does not 
have these settings and so would assume 0db = +4db out... which is 
definately too much for anything that likes to connect to the RCA jacks 
the LT comes with. You should probably be running your DAC levels at -12 
or -14 if you are using -10 amplification for monitoring.

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Len Ovens
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