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2011/10/19 20:29:08 (permalink)

SOLVED - mp3 exporting quieter than yesterday

I was playing around with some mixdown plugins today on a current project, and could not get the resulting mp3 export to the same level as the past mp3's that I exported a couple of days ago.

I thought that it was something I had done in the current project...however, when calling up previous projects and exporting, all resulting mp3's are at a lower level then yesterday.

I am thinking I may have inadvertently done something to cause this...aud.ini/preferences.

Anyone else ever experience this or have any suggestions?


post edited by gwp99 - 2011/10/20 16:17:38

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    Re:mp3 exporting quieter than yesterday 2011/10/20 02:51:50 (permalink)
    Did you remember to set your master fader to "0" (final sound card fader) in addition to your master bus fader?

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    Re:mp3 exporting quieter than yesterday 2011/10/20 16:17:14 (permalink)
    Thanks for the reply.

    It looks like my problem was a result of my over-use of the Slate FG-X plugin in last weeks sessions.   Yeaterday's quieter mp3 was because I reduced the Gain on the FG-X.  Audibly, I didn't hear a huge difference within Sonar, but the resulting mp3 was much quieter when played in Winamp (and compared to last weeks the mp3s played in Winamp)

    Today I did an mp3 export of a single audio track in Sonar, without any plugins, which peaked at -3.2db. When I imported and soloed this mp3 into the same project, the peak for this track was also -3.2db...as it should be.

    So it was user error...again!
    post edited by gwp99 - 2011/10/20 16:24:35

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