Mixdown Volume Lower than original

Cubase
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Hi guys,
I’m on Cubase 10, last update.

Yesterday I’ve found out a strange thing.
I’m on a very easy recording project (drums over a backing track). I do all the recordings and editing than I choose to mixdown tracks.
When I re-import those tracks in the same project I get a smaller waveform and obviously lower volume.
I tried to mixdown both in Stereo Out (exporting mono) and in Multi-Channel option.

No plugins in insert, nothing on the stereo out, nothing used in the cubase channel strip. Only a couple of 180 phase flips in the “pre” section" of the cubase rack.

Any idea?
Thx

2

What is the level of your stereo output faders at the time of the mixdown?

3

Well probably a couple too many then.

4

What problem are you trying to resolve by changing the phase?

I’ve been recording audio for… lets just call it a really long time. Over that time I’ve probably changed the phase 3-5 times total, and never multiple times in a single Project.

5

0 dB. All at 0 dB.

6

Don’t know why you don’t change the phase but actually I do many times. And I’ve been recording audio for a really long time, too.

This time was to phase align left and right overheads with kick and snare.

7

Anyway in a blank project the problem is absent.
Don’t understanding why in that project I still have that behaviour…

8

Maybe posting a screenshot of your audio mixdown window settings and/or the mixer channels would help. Are any of your channels set to ‘Monitor’ active at the time of the export?