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Dual Mono is boosting audio
Hello! I’m mastering off my project to a tape and need split audio. I’ve set the sequence settings to “dual mono” and assigned the audio outputs accordingly. Now when I play back the sequence, everything is 6dB louder. I’ve tried modifying the “Downmix dB” drop-downs to even -10 dB but nothing changes. All of the audio, including tone, are stereo pairs – would this have something to do with it? Why is dual mono affecting my timeline and how can I fix it. I would just lower the record level on the deck, but the audio is getting boosted to the point of distortion.
Thanks for any help!
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Did you pan the channels left and right?
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Panning the channels gives the same result – the audio is too loud. I can understand that taking a stereo signal and making it go to one channel would make it louder, but what is the alternative? What is the recommended workflow when the final product delivered needs to be stereo, but a split audio master will be put to tape? All of my audio originally stereo pairs – is this not ideal?
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