bluesfordan
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when you record in a DAW, do you set your input gain via your interface and leave your channel strip slider at 0?
The name of the Polk High running back who once scored 4 touchdowns in single game.great, I learned something new. NOW what's that going to push out of my brain ??
The name of the Polk High running back who once scored 4 touchdowns in single game.
The name of the Polk High running back who once scored 4 touchdowns in single game.
There was that whole episode where Kelly was on the sports quiz show and she crammed and studied and learned all the right answers, but somebody told her something new, so when it came time for the final question, she had forgotten the one fact she knew before the whole thing started.OMG, you're Al Bundy, aren't you!?!
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I dont touch the ReaperDAW sliders at all until mixing.
it is nice having some meters on the front end hardware, and not overdriving the chain of outboard stuff....getting a nice fat wave going...
or if just using the interface pre ...keep the clip led from blinking. turn up the headphones if you want louder...if you have tiny weeny wave you can normalize it later...get it big and fat.
stay on topic... no Congressman Wiener jokes please...
I do get those tiny weeny waves, even though my signal appears to be healthy. I still don't quite know what's the normalize thing is about. When I import a song, it will have huuuuge tracts of land. Er, I mean, waves.
Why not? Won't hurt anything. Adjust input gain at the interface or whatever in order to maximize S/N without clipping. Adjust the DAW faders and whatever is on the analog output side for what you want to hear while tracking.I dont touch the ReaperDAW sliders at all until mixing.
Why wouldn't we just call it it 0dbFS like everybody else?Let's call this 100.
Why not? Won't hurt anything. Adjust input gain at the interface or whatever in order to maximize S/N without clipping. Adjust the DAW faders and whatever is on the analog output side for what you want to hear while tracking.
Why wouldn't we just call it it 0dbFS like everybody else?
Why not? Won't hurt anything. Adjust input gain at the interface or whatever in order to maximize S/N without clipping. Adjust the DAW faders and whatever is on the analog output side for what you want to hear while tracking.
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Valid. I was kinda just playing with you. Thus the emoji.because if someone doesn't 'get' normalisation...
I guess if you’ve got other ways of monitoring, you can use whatever “faders” that gives you instead. If you are really shooting for the mix to just work with faders at unity, we can kind of get away with that a bit more specifically because it’s NOT tape and we don’t have to hedge against the hiss quite so much, but then you mentioned adjusting input levels to meet some kind of arbitrary levels (which average -12 for a lot of drum tracking is not going to give you 6db headroom, and will probably clip, but...) and most times that is not going to get you a good “faders up” mix.for REAPER its just a "reel to reel" to me, hit Record....roll the tape....