Audio meter does not display correct numbers

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December 16, 2021
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Hello,

I'm experiencing a problem when trying to adjust the volume of a song in Premiere. I have a song that I want to be playing at -5dB. In the audio control, I've set the track to play at -5dB but when I play it, the peaks of the song display -27dB on my audio meter for some reason. I've also highlighted the track and clip, as well as placed the song in solo mode but the problem persists. Should the song be doing that when I've adjusted it to -5dB? What am I doing wrong here? 🙂

Thank you!

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R Neil Haugen

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That simply moves the clip volume up or down from where it was, not to a specific setting.

You need to 'normalize' the audio gain first. Right-click on one or more selected clips in a sequence, Audio Gain, the select like "normalize max peak to:" or "normalize all peaks to:" and set the dB level.

Neil

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Billy544645Author

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Ok, thank you, I tried doing that.

In audio gain, I changed the "normalize max peak to -30dB." When playing the audio, the audio meter plays the song at around -15dB. Is this how it's supposed to be? I thought the song wouldn't go above -30dB when I've normalized the max peak to that number. I'm relatively new to this so I might be thinking about this the wrong way 🙂

R Neil Haugen

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"I've set the track to play at -dB ... "

What process did you use to do that?

Neil

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Billy544645Author

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Hi Neil,

I set the clip to play at -5dB using the audio clip mixer 🙂

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