Reading meters correctly with Voiceover

[Christopher Gilland]

OK, can someone explain two things to me?

Audio track: If I interact with the track strip, then go one past the
mute button, I see the output volume fader slider, but here's the weird
thing I'm not getting. After importing a karaoke track downloaded from
the internet, (Legally of corse,) and importing it on a track, I see
mute, the output volume fader which is by default at 0DB, then I see the
level meter. The odd thing though is, I have meters hold peek infinent
enabled, that meter right past that volume fader keeps staying at -1DB,
and no matter what I do, I can't VO+Space to reset it. There's no way
I'm actively sending -1DB of signal to that track. For one, my phantom
power isn't on, and 2, the track's not even armed, so I couldn't be
sending that amount of level. It's virtually impossible! Why won't it
therefore let me reset it to infinity?

To further weird things out, past that level meter, on the track, I see
a second! output level volume fader which yes, I can adjust. Granted,
it's not near as sensitive as the first one, but it does work. Then, I
see the peek meter. The peek meter will! let me reset it to infinity.

So, I'm trying to make sure this karaoke track doesn't go over -12DB. I
don't wanna clip even before adding my vocals, so I need some headroom.
I can't however tell what I need to be paying attention to. That -1DB on
the first level meter that won't seem to reset after playing about one
minute of the track, or do I need to more be looking at that second peek
meter that will! let me reset it.

Is there any way I can get PT only to show me that one peek meter?

And secondly, any idea why either l or p aren't working in FloTools to
read those things to me?

Chris.

[TheOreoMonster]

Chances are what’s happening here is your karaoke track has been brick wall limited to be consistent at -1db. Just turn the fader down on the karaoke track or use clip gain to Brin it down. So its hitting your master fader at around -12 db. So long as your master fader isn’t clipping you will be fine. To get headroom so you don’t clip your master fader just turn down the individual tracks. The individual track isn’t clipping as you are still below 0db.

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