Subject:How do you set Levels? -- When I render to WAVs I get Distortion

Posted by: butterball

Date:9/13/2003 1:38:56 AM

when I save part of a track or project (that sounds fine and DOESN'T distort), and render it to a wav, sometimes it distorts HORRIBLY because I must have set the volume level too high.

***What's the deal on this? Is there a way to tell what sound level to use before I create all these bad wav's? I notice ACID's volume knobs default to 6... Is that a good volume?

And I also noticed that wav's play back much louder than they sound in my project. Weird.

Subject:RE: How do you set Levels? -- When I render to WAVs I get Distortion

Reply by: TheHappyFriar

Date:9/13/2003 1:52:01 PM

The volume levels in your Master Volume are what gets rendered. If it registers a clip (numbers above mixer turn red) then it will be distorted. Playback your music and watch for the clip. You can use a volume envelope to turn down the parts that are hot, or turn down the master volume.

Subject:RE: How do you set Levels? -- When I render to WAVs I get Distortion

Reply by: butterball

Date:9/13/2003 8:40:39 PM

how do I set the master volume?

Subject:RE: How do you set Levels? -- When I render to WAVs I get Distortion

Reply by: TheHappyFriar

Date:9/14/2003 8:25:17 AM

When you playback your tracks, just watch your master mixer. Raise/lower it so it doesn't clip, but maxes out as close to 0 as possible (i usually max out around .8, but someitmes hit 0. :) )

Subject:RE: How do you set Levels? -- When I render to WAVs I get Distortion

Reply by: dbOS://00

Date:10/22/2003 8:25:03 PM

make sure your preview level isn't set too high, if it is set too high, when you render your track, It might come out louder than you want it to