I've posted about this before but in my experience and understanding when I take a pair of stereo tracks like music or EFX and do a mono mixdown to create a mono stem I set the audio mixer to -6db to account for the doubling up of the tracks. This is the math and approach I've used successfully in the past. Today I took a stereo EFX pair and mixed down to mono and when I set it to -6db the tone section at the head is playing back at -3db below the standard -20 for reference tone. WTF? Has the audio mixdown matrix changed in V 6? I seem to recall there are some audio settings to do with how much attenuation in a cross fade or pan senario. Do these controls effect a mono multing in an audio mixdown? I'm confused -6db has always worked and I've had my protools mixers confirm that is the proper setting. What am I missing here? Why is -3db now seem to be the magic number? Is tone fooling me?
John Moore
Barking Trout Productions
Studio City, CA
bigfish@pacbell.net
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