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  Peak Meters

  Posted by Simon Roughan on October 8, 2013 at 1:51 pm

  This is strange. I am trying to mix several audio tracks so that it is as close as possible to peaking, before I make a sub-mix and normalize them.
  There are 6 tracks of music and sound fx. When I make the time indicator in the sequence back 10 seconds before the point I want to check, it shows me on the audio meter that it peaks just before going red. But when I start it 5 seconds before the point, it goes over (red bars).
  Why is it showing me 2 different values from the same point in time, just because I start playing the sequence at a different point?

  thanks in advance
  Simon

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  Tim Kolb replied 12 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Tim Kolb

  October 8, 2013 at 4:32 pm

  All I can think of is the summing…

  I assume there is sound in the earlier segment that “sustains” some level into the later point you were starting from.

  You may have a pretty difficult time adjusting each source to create a peak collectively…you could normalize each source separately to achieve the same peak, but when sources are combined the levels will start to interact.

  TimK,
  Director, Consultant
  Kolb Productions,

  Adobe Certified Instructor

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