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Someone said my intro music was way too loud and it made me check my audio levels again
A viewer left a comment on my last video saying the first 10 seconds were painful because my theme song blasted their ears. I went back and saw my intro track was peaking at -3 dB while my voiceover sat at -18 dB, so I started using a hard limiter to cap the music at -12 dB before I even start editing. Has anyone else found a simple trick to balance their audio from the start?
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thompson.nathan19d ago
Does anyone else find that your headphones can totally lie to you about how loud things really are? I remember recording a podcast with a friend once and we both swore the levels were perfect through our monitoring headphones. Then when we played it back on a regular speaker in the living room, the intro music just absolutely drowned out the first minute of talking. Now I always do a quick playback check on my phone speaker before I export anything final. That little tinny speaker catches problems that my nice headphones completely miss.
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the_cameron1mo ago
Honestly that's a solid fix. I just run my intro music through a quick normalize to -14 dB before I drop it in the timeline. Saves a headache later.
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gavin_kelly911mo ago
Nice one, @the_cameron. I used to get caught out by that all the time until I started doing the same thing. Normalizing first really does stop the mix from getting out of hand later on.
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