20 Mar
2016
20 Mar
'16
9:59 p.m.
On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 05:06:37PM -0400, jonetsu(a)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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