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Why am I getting 6 dB of additional gain in FL Studio?
This might be very hard to pinpoint without looking at the project file, but does anyone have any ideas why FL Studio might be adding 6 dB of additional gain to a channel before entering the mixer?
That is, if the channel volume of a 0.0 dB normalised sample is left at the default volume of -5.2 dB, then the level going into the mixer peaks at -8.2 dB (i.e. the level is reduced by 3.0 dB). This is all fine and well, and evident when starting a new project, but for some reason this project is actually adding 6 dB of additional gain. If the channel volume is left at the default -5.2 dB, the input into the first plug-in on the mixer for that channel peaks 3.0 dB higher than that (so -2.2 dB), i.e. it's adding 6 more dB than normal. So basically something's gone wrong that's upset all the levels, and I'm out of ideas as to what might be causing it. I've tried adding a new audio clip channel and left everything at default, and even sent it to a different mixer channel, but I'm still getting 6 more dB than normal.
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