I think i understand ehat you're saying.
Unity gain Is desireable. Both in the daw and in an analog setup.
But that is seperate from your monitoring. Yeah if everything was at unity, you'd fry your ears. speakers etc.
I think the tc unit is for daws and powered monitors where your volume is controlled by a mouse but isn't needed with a mixer.
You should have a dedicated monitor volume that no matter how hard you are slamming the mix buss, you could listen quietly or loudly.
Headphone amps are generally run on an aux send.
With my board I have 3 'vol' controls. One for control room, one for the live room, and one for the headphones.
All this has nothing to do with my mix/tracking levels. Just how loud or soft I'm hearing what is going on.
Edit: Re: headphones, my trusty 25 year old AkG phones are much quieter in level than my new sennheiser headphones. It seems like most newer phones are louder?
Unity gain Is desireable. Both in the daw and in an analog setup.
But that is seperate from your monitoring. Yeah if everything was at unity, you'd fry your ears. speakers etc.
I think the tc unit is for daws and powered monitors where your volume is controlled by a mouse but isn't needed with a mixer.
You should have a dedicated monitor volume that no matter how hard you are slamming the mix buss, you could listen quietly or loudly.
Headphone amps are generally run on an aux send.
With my board I have 3 'vol' controls. One for control room, one for the live room, and one for the headphones.
All this has nothing to do with my mix/tracking levels. Just how loud or soft I'm hearing what is going on.
Edit: Re: headphones, my trusty 25 year old AkG phones are much quieter in level than my new sennheiser headphones. It seems like most newer phones are louder?
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