I find the volume to be noticeable lower on a rendered song than on other “generic” songs i have in digital format on my computer. The Renoise master level meter is sometimes reaching clipping indication although i try to avoid it, since i guess it’s common practise. But how do i make the song louder without clipping and distortion? I run the ‘sox’ utility in linux to get some statistics about my wav and an other track that is loud but not distorted in some way.
my_file.wav:
Overall Left Right
DC offset -0.048049 -0.047935 -0.048049
Min level -1.000000 -0.966156 -1.000000
Max level 0.683258 0.678162 0.683258
Pk lev dB 0.00 -0.30 0.00
RMS lev dB -10.42 -10.42 -10.41
RMS Pk dB -7.74 -7.81 -7.74
RMS Tr dB -29.75 -29.75 -28.99
Crest factor - 3.21 3.31
Flat factor 4.44 0.00 6.02
Pk count 16.5 11 22
Bit-depth 16/16 16/16 16/16
Num samples 1.66M
Length s 34.500
Scale max 1.000000
Window s 0.050
other_song.wav:
Overall Left Right
DC offset -0.000039 -0.000032 -0.000039
Min level -1.000000 -1.000000 -1.000000
Max level 0.999969 0.999969 0.999969
Pk lev dB 0.00 0.00 0.00
RMS lev dB -9.46 -9.54 -9.38
RMS Pk dB -5.48 -5.62 -5.48
RMS Tr dB -184.13 -184.13 -182.23
Crest factor - 3.00 2.94
Flat factor 8.63 6.14 10.00
Pk count 12.9k 10.5k 15.3k
Bit-depth 16/16 16/16 16/16
Num samples 26.9M
Length s 609.080
Scale max 1.000000
Window s 0.050
Although all these numbers dont tell me much i can clearly se differences.
The other strange things is how the sound representation looks in audacity, not centered at all. I have checked all my samples used and the are centered in the sample editor of Renoise:
Is this bad? What is it and what did i do wrong?
Thanks for any help.