Hello! Thank you for your great work. Tell me please how to adjust the volume of music in the stream? Loud music at a low bitrate HE-AAC of 48 kilobits gives distortion. I need to lower the level to -3 dB.
Pull the Final Drive down to -3. That was the instruction I received from Leif. I'm not sure, though if it does EXACTLY what we're thinking it does. I feel like this is more like an intensity or density setting. I've dragged it all the way down and it continues to show 0db on the Output Meter, just much more dynamic content. I've understood that they hard-coded the volume level at the encoder based on the bitrate and other settings.
The final drive is not the volume of the music. If you lower the final drive, then I get a completely different sound. If you lower the sound volume in Breakaway One at the output, and then broadcast it with another program, everything sounds normal. The lower the bitrate, the quieter the music should sound, so that there is no distortion.