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| LoveHate |
just wondering , how many of you lower all of your faders, before you start working on a track , or start mixing, and what level is a reasonable level?
for me i would say -10 db is just enough headroom. :) |
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| clay |
| all my faders are in 0, i never touch them, i adjust the levels on the instrument instead. this coming from a dj point of view where you have the gain knob adjusting levesls and the mixing fader for playing with the parts (same as mute/solo functionality really). |
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| LoveHate |
| quote: | Originally posted by Beatflux
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why ? |
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| cryophonik |
| No set rule for me. Depends on the instrument, or the level of the audio clip, style of music, etc. I just pull it down until it's where I want it in the mix, then I check it against my bus and master output meters. |
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| Looney4Clooney |
| quote: | Originally posted by clay
all my faders are in 0, i never touch them, i adjust the levels on the instrument instead. this coming from a dj point of view where you have the gain knob adjusting levesls and the mixing fader for playing with the parts (same as mute/solo functionality really). |
gain staging fail. Not that it matters but it would be the incorrect way to do it. basically if you were an assistant and someone saw you do this, you would be out of a job. |
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| Beatflux |
| quote: | Originally posted by LoveHate
why ? |
You get louder and no huge accidental spikes. |
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| Looney4Clooney |
| you shouldn't be going over in the first place. If you aren't used to recording to tape , there is no reason to develop a habit of going anywhere near 0. I mean your final mix peaking at -12dBfs is fine if not desirable for mastering engineers so think about each channel and how loud you actually need to have them |
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| sundrip |
| Does recording to tape saturate the recording? |
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| Evolve140 |
| Only as high as you need it to be to hear the sound. |
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| Looney4Clooney |
| tape naturally adds compression so getting your levels hot were important if you wanted a certain sound. So engineers were really good at riding the faders and getting a hot signal. There is no point in the digital realm when working at high bit rates. |
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| sundrip |
| Offtopic but I have been playing around with the tape effect on the master, it brings some uniformity to the mix, mids are a little tighter. Will do more. |
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