[Rwp] Monitoring Peaks

Derek Lane derek at pdaudio.net
Fri Mar 11 13:36:33 EST 2016


Some chorus effects can make minor volume changes which would explain why peaks are different. It would be more of a concern if the same piece of audio were played in reaper, and the peaks were different.

> On Mar 11, 2016, at 1:15 PM, Justin <justinmacleod at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Can anyone else reproduce this as I'm quite baffled.
> 
> Using Osara's peakwatcher I have monitored the same piece of audio multiple times, resetting the peaks between each pass and I get different levels every time.
> 
> The audio is run through a chain including the 3-band splitter and joiner, eq, chorus, a phazer and compression and the peak levels vary between -1.0 and -1.7 db for the left channel.
> 
> I'm wondering if it could be a latency issue but can't account for it and obviously it is problematic. When I audition with effects bypassed the levels are nice and constant. Just wondering how to solve the problem.
> 
> Thanks for any help,
> 
> Justin
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