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| quote: | Originally posted by DJ RANN
make sure on your recording device that you have a little bit of headroom for when two (or more) tracks are in the mix. Do a quick test by taking the loudest part of one tracks (i.e. the drop or main segment) and looking at the levels on the recording device. Now do the same for two in the mix and make sure on both these tests that you never clip on the recording device - I generally set my gain staging so that I'm always about -1db at max. This means if you need to just put it up slightly more you have a little bit of headrom and you are protecting yourself from clipping, which in the digital domain is not a good thing.
The mixer clipping (not massively just a peak in the red very occasionally), although not great, will not affect your recording quality anywhere near as much as a peak in the recording medium will, so be careful that even if your mixer output peaks/clips in to the red, you still have that little bit of headroom in the recording.
Remember if the recording if not as loud as you would like it (i.e. if you're desperate to have to loudest possible recoding without clipping), you can always make it louder after the recording in a wave editor, which again will protect you from over doing it. |
Thanks for explaing it a little, i was lazy. 
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