
Sonixx
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I haven't thought about it that way... I'm referring to Amp Gain not the level that I'm tracking.
Maybe we're all taking about different things...
Maybe we're all taking about different things...
regardless of what the poster is recording....
Bottom line is you cannot have so much gain that it is clipping the track, Period. (well you can if you want a shitty sounding track that you can't do anything with).
And not so little that it does not cut through the mix. you also need to leave some amount of head room which I have found that -9 to -12 db to be ideal and you can get away upping the gain with Low end signals but not much more, some where around -5 db is ok for bass.
you can always push the faders up to where you need it during post recording editing;there are always more than one to boost your gain post recording.
but you cannot unclip a recorded track that was recorded too hot to begin with.
That is just the cold hard facts.