Is it possible to set the record and playback level meter range to go below -59 db?
Didn’t see anything in preferences and search results seems to be just about setting levels.
Thanks
“Edit menu > Preferences > Interface: Meter dB range”
https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/interface_preferences.html
(I agree, this is not at all obvious 
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LOL
Nope. No obvious at all… LOL
Specifically looked in preferences and passed right over it.
With breakfast egg plastered on my face out about an enhancement suggestion to add the setting to the meter options (right client meter select options) and make it independently settable for record level and playback meters.
make it independently settable for record level and playback meters.
Why would you want that? I think I would have trouble following that. The two meters are already independently settable for Gradient (Recording) and Peak/RMS (Playback).
I do something you might consider. I spread the 96dB range out across the full width of the display
If you do that, then the critical areas for production end up the same screen size as the much lower dB range tiny default meters, but there’s no such thing as having sound hide from you down in the low volume mud. I think Cool Edit does something similar as default.
Koz
Probably wouldn’t, though when recording you may want say -36 to 0 dB stretched full screen so that you can clearly see your peak level, and for playback you may want the meter down to -96 dB so that you can see the noise floor.
Regardless of whether they are both the same or not, I agree it would be much easier / logical / intuitive to find if the setting was in the meter’s drop-down menu rather than hidden away in preferences.
when recording you may want say -36 to 0 dB stretched full screen so that you can clearly see your peak level, and for playback you may want the meter down to -96 dB so that you can see the noise floor.
Yup, think it would be handy during recording session with pass through playback.
An example:
(I prefer vertical meters. But that is irrelevant to dual range.)
