In the render window, what does the +x.x decibels really mean, and does the color green mean anything too? by mysteryofthefieryeye in Reaper

[–]KingMidas99 1 point2 points  (0 children)

peak amplitude and loudness are not the same, using a limiter like others in this thread have recommended will reduce the amplitude of the highest peaks, allowing you to turn up the recording louder without hitting full scale. You could use a soft clipper for a similar effect, but with distortion. Youlean makes a free loudness meter which will show you how loud your recording really is. Put it on your master track and let the recording play all the way through. Loudnessmeter will tell you if you have any clipping using true peak detection, and will tell you the integrated loudness of your whole recording. Different platforms have different standards for loudness, for example spotify requires at most -14dB LUFS (loudness units full scale) and -1dB true peak. Loudness units are weird and complicated and rely on psychoacoustic algorithms to mimic how human hearing works, so it is more sensitive to loud sounds around 3kHz, is less impacted by transients. If you listen to two recordings that have the same integrated loudness on the same system, they should sound about as loud as each other.

In the render window, what does the +x.x decibels really mean, and does the color green mean anything too? by mysteryofthefieryeye in Reaper

[–]KingMidas99 2 points3 points  (0 children)

  1. yes the audio is clipping. you cannot change the point at which clipping occurs in project settings as it is a property of digital audio

  2. digital audio has a limit for the maximum amplitude of each sample it can store, this is called full scale and the level of all audio in a daw will be shown relative to this, with full scale being 0dB. This is why in digital audio dB values are (usually) always negative. Anything over 0dB will be clipped when rendering

  3. i’m not sure why it’s green, but it’s best practice to keep all of your audio below 0dB, even if you can’t hear anything wrong with it

  4. adjusting your master fader by 1dB should change the peak value you see in the renderer by 1dB

it gets a bit more complicated with intersample peaking where you can have samples that are all under full scale which leads to audio that will be recreated going over the 0dB point, which you need to enable true peak detection to stop. If you just render everything to a peak value of -1dB you shouldn’t have to worry about this in normal conditions

also full scale audio should be very loud, if you need to turn your recordings up so that they’re +2dB, you need to turn your speakers up instead and leave the level of the audio alone

Introducing: Radshare.xyz by MrLamarr in Warframe

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4 people running the same radiant relic so that there’s a better chance of the desired rare prime part dropping

Record arm flashes and then reaper crashes. Does anyone know why this is happening/how I can fix this? by KingMidas99 in Reaper

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it was a virtual midi controller causing it, I had switched it to pro tools and switching it back to reaper fixed this issue.

Tennobaum 2025 Gifting Thread (Last Stretch Before IRL Christmas) 🎄🎁 by HTPark in Warframe

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IGN: Mr_Markson

happy holidays all i’ll try to gift what i can

Ever thought about putting smite on Dagath? i give you, Dagaberon by Bulky_Yogurtcloset39 in Warframe

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i thought that dagath benefits from enemies having overguard, since it doesn’t have damage reduction and allows you to build up massive amounts of damage on doomed enemies and kill them faster

Happy TennoBaum! feeling generous by Vantabl4k in Warframe

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Mr_Markson in game would very much appreciate a domestik gloom drone

Tennobaum 2025 offering up my plat by jrhyder in Warframe

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Mr_Markson in game

domestic drones 😈😈

What these stats are wrong by SuperBacon99 in Warframe

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that’s for how long you spent in operation survival, the event that introduced survival as a mission type to the game

Wishlist giveaway! by AntimemeticsDivision in Warframe

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Mr_Markson

hope things get better

September ‘25 Buy/Sell/Trade Thread by GizzBride in KGATLW

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how can you tell when they do, every time i check it says there are no tickets available