Rendered Audio Too Loud

[Vivilizard]

Hello. I'm new to this forum and to Resolve. The problem I have is that when I get my music audio all set to deliver to Youtube (-1TP, -14LUFTS) in a test clip and all is sounding great and after I test it by bouncing the audio to a new track and testing that audio (then deleting the bounce track), I render the clip as a Youtube deliverable. I then bring that new MP4 file back into Resolve into a new, clean, blank project to test it in Fairlight. The audio though is now at -11 LUFT and no matter how I set the rendering parameters or set my dynamics in either the timeline or the bus of the original project and re-render it, it does the same thing, the new MP4 file is too hot for Youtube ... at least that is what Resolve says.

Can anyone help? What am I doing wrong? Thanks

I'm on a Windows 10 laptop running Davinci Resolve 21.1.1

 

[Vivilizard]

Sorry, I meant LUFS, not LUFTS. Also, I've been watching many Youtube videos about settings for Davinci Resolve rendering for Youtube, and audio tutorials in general. But I just haven't run across this particular issue yet.

 

[Vivilizard]

Most people seem to be having issues with their Youtube soundtracks coming out of DVR quieter, not louder than they expected. I wonder why Resolve just doesn't output the same audio loudness as it shows internally.