VP-10e: In-Vegas Audio Playback WAY TOO LOUD - Fix/Reset?

Soniclight-2.0 wrote on 3/18/2018, 4:44 PM

System/OS: Windows 7 64 bit.
NLE: Vegas Pro 10e
Sound Card: M-Audio Delta Audiophile 2494, Analog I/O
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I've been using Vegas since v.6 and 10e is my current. For years, as with for example my Steinberg Cubase and every other video and audio playback situations (Browsers, VLC, Windows Media Player, GOM, etc.), the sound level is pretty consistent. And due to shortcut keys on my wireless keyboard, I can instantly increase or decrease volume.

Or use M-Audio's Control Panel sliders.
But beside the below described, I rarely need to use it.

This consistency of what came out of my KRK speakers also applied to Vegas.
Then....

At some point more or less recently, and I do not remember why, I must have done something in Vegas Preferences or elsewhere, and unlike all other situations mentioned, I have dive over to my M-Audio Control Panel (standard keyboard and System audio volume level adjustments have no effect) to turn down the really LOUD audio track/s playback while working in Vegas.

So for now, my work around is to set M-Audio before working in Vegas to almost 0 so I don't blow out my eardrums or speakers. But to hear a test render w/audio from Vegas, got to slide it back up to my normal 50% in M-Audio.

Then go back down to almost 0 when editing in Vegas.
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So....

Q: What happened, where and how can I fix this to go back to where Vegas will act like all other progs in terms of volume level?

Please provide detailed sequence of how to do so.
Thank you.

~ PSK

Comments

Dexcon wrote on 3/18/2018, 10:49 PM

Have a look at Vegas Pro's Preview and Master audio levels (View/Window Layouts/Audio Mixing). Are the audio levels under the volume sliders at 0.0 or below, or are they elevated higher than 0.0? If elevated too high, this is one cause I can think of for the high volumes you are getting.

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Soniclight-2.0 wrote on 3/19/2018, 2:22 AM

Thanks. My one music track (already a finished mix .wav exported from Cubase) was set at 1.6.dB. My Preferences/Audio's Normalize peak level is (I think by default) set at -0.1 dB.

I don't usually don't use the Layouts/Mixing Console in Vegas for I do all my playing, recording, composing, arrangements, mixing, etc. in Cubase; but in Vegas's Console, I then lowered that track's dBs while keeping an eye on (in my case) the master "Analog Out" so that the render-out remains in the sweet-spot (as high as possible without cut-off, distortion).

So this solved it in this .veg. I just never has this problem before, so never needed or used the audio Mixing Console. Maybe something happened under-the-hood in Vegas. I don't want to uninstall, reinstall at this point.

So I'll stick with this work-around for now.