Thanks for the reply.
The outputs are in the red without the limiter, but very, very rarely hit red with it.
After I had reinstall my OS and Resolve yesterday (possibly due to one of those HD clean up programs cleaning up something its shouldn't) I edited another video, and it seems to be okay.
My issue is there's a lot of quiet dialogue moments in the game too, so it's hard to get the right balance when recording with OBS originally.
I'll keep an eye on it, but I think I'm happy with the results this time round, especially as it would save me a lot of time editing.
Andy Evans wrote:Hey Lorne,
no it doesn't if the sound you are limiting is clean.
There are a lot a variables - the source recording may have distortion on the gunshots that you don't really notice until you apply limiting. By limiting the sound then turning up the relative level overall, you are going to hear stuff that is lurking down in the lower levels of the sound more readily.
What does the output meter of the dynamics section show...is it in the red? Are you applying any makeup gain after the limiting? Like I say there are a lot of variables but if I apply it to a machine gun burst out of my SFX library that is cleanly recorded it doesn't add or create any distortion, even knocking 10 dB off the sound, which is a lot to do with a single limiter.