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shorter126
09-11-2012, 11:58 AM
Hi all

Anytime I covert a wav file to mp3 after recording my podcast I notice that the volume level goes down. Should I continue to normalize afterwards, or leave well alone ?

By the way I use Adobe Auditin for editing.

sunkast
09-11-2012, 09:47 PM
Are you editing in multi-track mode then mixing down to a single track?

shorter126
09-11-2012, 11:25 PM
yes thats it exactly !

sunkast
09-12-2012, 01:56 PM
Mine does the same thing. I usually just normalize it.

andrewzarian
09-12-2012, 03:26 PM
I knew sunkast would know :)

ChaseShumway
09-12-2012, 06:28 PM
Does it drop about 3db? if so, you can go into the Preferences, under the Multitrack tab at the top there should be an option that says "Left/Right Cut (logarithmic)". Check that and your levels should stay the same when you save out your multitrack sessions. Audition does a hard limit to -3db when saving them out by default. This turns that off.

shorter126
09-12-2012, 11:19 PM
Thats awesome ! I'll look for that and try again. Thanks again !