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  • Signal gets extra 6dB of gain between audio track and aux track
2016/04/07 15:22:09
Kylotan
Ok, here's a weird one. I have a guitar track that is one of two routed into an aux track acting as a subgroup, and that aux track then goes into a bus. What I'm seeing is the output of the aux track is 6dB higher than the output of the guitar track going into it. This is still the case when the track is soloed so it's not some other track feeding in as well, and there are no other sends from the guitar track. The aux track's gain and volume are both 0. No plugins on the aux track, no ProChannel.
 
I fixed the problem by just creating a fresh aux track and routing the guitars through there instead. I can't see any difference between the new one and the old one but now I get unity gain when I pipe audio through. So, I don't really have a problem that needs solving any more, but I thought this was worth mentioning. Maybe someone else can reproduce it, or maybe someone knows a hidden setting that I accidentally managed to switch. 6dB is a suspiciously 'round' number, as if the signal was being routed in twice by accident.
2016/04/07 15:45:48
brundlefly
Check the input assignment and interleave of the Aux track. If the input is both channels of the stereo patch point, and the interleave is set to mono, you'll get a 6dB gain. 
2016/04/07 17:59:43
Kylotan
Good idea, but both aux tracks (the boosted one, and the normal one) have stereo inputs and are marked as stereo interleave. Also the guitar tracks are hard panned.
2016/04/07 18:48:45
subtlearts
Likely you've already checked this, but is the input gain knob on the aux channel at unity? Lots of people never touch these and don't think to look at them, maybe it got changed somehow?
2016/04/08 03:28:45
Kylotan
Said in first post, "The aux track's gain and volume are both 0". As far as I can tell the old broken aux track and the new one are identical in every way and in every setting. That's what makes this quite weird.
2016/04/08 03:59:04
msorrels
Sounds a lot like the issues in this thread, perhaps you can find some ideas of what to look at:
http://forum.cakewalk.com/SOLVED-Volume-Differences-at-unity-cwp-added-m3342056.aspx
 
2016/04/08 05:23:44
Kylotan
Nothing really useful there, unfortunately. A lot of talk about meters and offset mode, and my meters aren't the issue and offset mode shows no offsets for me.
2016/04/08 05:26:21
pwalpwal
pan law setting?
2016/04/08 06:06:10
Kylotan
Not gonna apply, is it?
2016/04/08 06:22:58
pwalpwal
stereo to mono somewhere in the signal path? just a thought
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