I did a quick project on BIAB 2022. I rendered using the usual dialog, choosing no full render, render individual tracks, each track dry and center, no normalization.

When playing the project within BIAB, it all sounded fine with the mixer faders at their default positions. But the rendered file is probably 24 dB too hot in the bass track -- it is loud and completely distorted. The other tracks rendered fine (in their individual files.)

I tried pulling back the bass fader before rendering,m but that didn't work. I was able to get a usable file by pulling down the complete "This song" fader. That got the bass below the distortion level.

This never happened to me on any previous release. Anybody else seeing this behavior?

BIAB: 2023 UltraPak
DAWs: StudioOne 5 Pro, Cubase 12 Pro
Audio: Scarlett 18i20
OS: Win10 64-bit CPU: Haswell 4790 Mem: 24 GB Vid: GTX-760Ti

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