Nityananda_SCSMath
Logician
Hi everyone, please forgive this dumb question, and help me get back to work!
I am pretty uneducated about recording. But my understanding of a limiter is that any signal that goes above the threshold you set is super-compressed or "squashed" so that it basically is decreased in volume to the threshold you set.
The rest of the signal that is BELOW the threshold is un-touched. Only the peaks that go above the threshold level are affected.
So why is it that when I set the threshold (called "output level") using the limiter in LogicPro/SoundtrackPro to something like -5db, the whole file is brought down about 5db? Yes, the peaks that went above -5db were brought down, but so is everything else! I don't want the audio below -5db to be affected. What am I doing wrong?
Please help, I'm on a deadline!
Thanks
-Chris
I am pretty uneducated about recording. But my understanding of a limiter is that any signal that goes above the threshold you set is super-compressed or "squashed" so that it basically is decreased in volume to the threshold you set.
The rest of the signal that is BELOW the threshold is un-touched. Only the peaks that go above the threshold level are affected.
So why is it that when I set the threshold (called "output level") using the limiter in LogicPro/SoundtrackPro to something like -5db, the whole file is brought down about 5db? Yes, the peaks that went above -5db were brought down, but so is everything else! I don't want the audio below -5db to be affected. What am I doing wrong?
Please help, I'm on a deadline!
Thanks
-Chris