[ardour-users] Getting the export gain right.

[Jesse Chappell]

On 3/1/06, Alex Polite <notmyprivateemail at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've noticed that the exported wavs are louder than what I hear in
> ardour. If I leave the mixer settings untouched everything will sound
> OK i ardour but the exported wavs will be loud beyond the point of
> distortion.  I have to pull the master mixer (right terminology?) down
> to about -17 dbFS (whatever that is) to get a wav that sounds OK. Is
> this expected behavior or am I doing something wrong?

This shouldn't be the case.  Make sure you only check the master 1 and
2 check boxes for channels 1 and 2 respectively, and do not check any
others in the export dialog.

jlc