I have a custom right now that sounds perfectly fine in Reaper (as an mp3) but when I try to render it as a wav it suffers horrible clipping. I’ve been changing volume levels in Reaper for days now and no matter what I try it has no effect. What’s the best way to normalise an overly-loud track, in Reaper or Audacity or similar? It’s a single-track custom so all the song audio is in the one file.

If the original track is not clipping, you don’t need to normalize it, you need to check why the heck Reaper is acting out. ” src=”/wp-content/uploads/invision_emoticons/default_SA_wink.gif”>

Solved the problem – it wasn’t Reaper, it was VLC media player. Turns out having your media player set at 200% volume can cause distortion and clipping. Who knew? ^^ Thanks guys.

 

It would be good if this forum had a Q&A thread for these types of questions. I often have little questions like this and sometimes they don’t really need a whole thread of their own.

I think it’s fine for them to have their own threads. Makes it easier to fly through topic titles vs. sifting through a ten page thread looking to see if your question has been answered. Also makes it easier if we wanted to index an FAQ or something.