Mixed Volume

[Parkway South]

This is probably a stupid question and I'm not really sure how to word it either, but here goes...I have Cakewalk Sonar and I use a Mackie 1202 VLZ mixer going into a Echo Mia card. I'm having trouble bringing the volume of the mix up to a good level while keeping the sound clean. I'm using compression and eq as I think you need to, but I'm fairly new at home recording. Help?

[James Argo]

...I wouldn't put anything in chain for recording, unless it is verrry necesary. And if that happens, use external gear, not the plugins. Arm the selected track, Turn on the audio engine, and watch the level monitor of your input signal. The range of good clean input is usualy peak at -6dB to -3dB. Bring the Mixer's fader up to these point. Start from silent. Once you get there, mark it... You'll probably need to set this setup latter. Go record, and hear the result. First by your ears, and then by yout eyes.

That's it...
Happy record a clean shoot.

Jaymz

[James Argo]

...And welcome to the board, have a nice session.

Jaymz