On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 05:06:37PM -0400, jonetsu@xxxxxxxxxxxx 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, -- FA A world of exhaustive, reliable metadata would be an utopia. It's also a pipe-dream, founded on self-delusion, nerd hubris and hysterically inflated market opportunities. (Cory Doctorow) _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
