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Compressing to mp3 reshuffles the peaks. If your wav file is peaking near 0dBFS, compressing to mp3 will push it over in many places.
Correct. I go through this all the time with Podcasters. Going from mono to stereo and vise versa will also affect the outcome as well for the AES recommended standards for streaming audio. The safest thing to do is after you render, recheck the audio again in the format you are going to distribute it in. A 3 min song is not as bad compared to a 3 hr Podcast.
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I took off the limiter and rendered a new 48k 24 bit WAV and then LAME mp3'd and ran loudness meter and now there's only 17 clips! Progress . Thanks for pointing me in the Orban direction
You are very welcome. I am going to go play with your audio. I use Reaper and I am going to see what I can do with their soft peak limiter.
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OK, this is what I did. I did not use the peak limiter, I simply lowered your LU by 0.5dbs and it gave me a -10.4db with a -0.2 or -0.3dbTP. (I used two meters), with o clips. That is what the pic below represents. The last part of the pic is how I checked the loudness using Reaper. You can listen to your audio here with 0 clips.
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