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This is why I'm really confused on what's happening. I'm bringing the exported file back into FL Studio and turning all plugins on the master off so I'm hearing the exported track with no additional processing. I could just turn the master down -3dB but I'd like what I hear in my session to be what I export so I don't have to play the guessing game every time I finish a song. I export that file (with the last plugin in the chain still deactivated), bring it into FL and its peaking at 0db with no clipping/distortion, pretty much how I hear it in my session when the last plugin IS activated. So I go back to my session and take the last plugin in the chain off.
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It's peaking at about 1-2 dB, lots of distortion. At this point I take all plugins off the master so I can hear the track exactly as I exported it with no additional processing. I export the mp3 and bring it back into FL Studio so I can see where the track is peaking. Before I export, the master is peaking a bit under 0db, no clipping at all. Otherwise the exported file will be running through the mixbus a second time.Thanks for the reply, bringing the file back into FL is what I've been doing. Be sure to measure the session with any mixbus processing active and the exported file without the mixbus processing active. Otherwise they are subject to volume changes from your system volume and probably the application you use to listen back outside of FL. You can't compare their volumes properly unless they are within the same application. The first thing you need to do is bring the exported file back into the session you just exported it from and compare the volume of the exported file with the session.