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After Effects Audio Spectrum Cut Off?
Cant seem to get the audio to go past the blue line? How can I resize the boundaries, without resizing or messing with the audio spectrum circle?
I agree with Dave - a lot of audio spectrum lately. frankly, I do hope making this generic type of waveform visualizer does not sum up the visual aspirations of our youth. Ae can do so much more than this circle thing along with some audio playing for 2 hours... but hey! do what you want, who am I to judge? 
mbfxa, the blue line is your layer boundaries. the effect is going out of the solid boundaries - the layer you applied it to. you can increase these boundaries in a few ways. one way is to add the motion tile effect prior to the audio waveform and use output height. this will increase the height and allow your effect more room to grow.
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