Yes. The zero setting and the slider is only how much the Analyze Volume tool will raise your volume from what it's already trying to do. If I have the slider on +2dB and the Analyze Volume tool says a song should be -5dB, I'll end up with a -3dB track gain.
If you mean that you will end up with the song containing a Track Gain tag with the value of -3dB, that's not the case.
That value will depend on the calculated perceived loudness of that track and will rarely be a single digit.
If you meant that you ended up needing to set the slider at -3 in this case, then yes.
(I am not trying to be nitpicky, but other users may stumble upon this thread some day trying to figure things out, and then it's good to
be precise)
The way I described it is exactly how my volume analyzer is working.
![](https://i.imgur.com/SFqZlnN.jpg)
I have the song Cochise that I have used the "Restore Original Volume" tool to remove any gain tags.
![](https://i.imgur.com/tIkl0nK.jpg)
I'm then running the volume analyzer with 0dB adjustment.
And that gives me this
![](https://i.imgur.com/NFYxFXZ.jpg)
Cochise with a track gain of -10.83dB
If I then use the "Restore Original Volume" tool again and run the volume analyzer like this;
![](https://i.imgur.com/aBodVVQ.jpg)
With a +2dB adjustment, I get a track gain of -8.83dB
Which you can see here
![](https://i.imgur.com/pfgqjLJ.jpg)
And for the sake of argument, I have the Audioslave CD, which I used MB's CD rip tool to encode as mp3s under the Maximum Quality profile.
I can take a pic of my settings if you need.
All of this is to say that I know how the volume analyzer tool works and how to use it, but it's still giving me songs with -14dB track gain that are far quieter than what they should be, and songs with +13dB track gain which are too loud. If I'm wrong about the "middle point" thing that's fine, but I'd rather not have to go through all my music individually trying to find the one's that are too quiet or too loud. Is there another way?
The Analyze Volume tool gave it -3.64dB track gain but it says it needs a -1.7dB adjustment to prevent clipping. So WTF does that mean?
I have no effing idea. That should not happen.
Could you PM me a link to that song?
I'll just post it here
https://drive.google.com/file/d/15valL2My0uThF2Y9Tr8uUppp57BMQYQc/view?usp=sharingLet me know if you can't download it