
Purge
Traitorous Usurper
So many choices, and so many places in the signal chain to increase/decrease gain/levels. If I'm recording guitar, for example:
Guitar volume knob-->
Effects processor preamp (Boss GT-6)-->
Guitar amp volume-->
Pre-fader gain on the mixer, if using inserts (compression, reverb, W/E)-->
Mixer faders-->
Auxilliary levels (equalizers, W/E)-->
Levels on whatever recording device is being used-->
and on and on and so forth, with even more headaches involving drums and mics and what-not. With so many options for raising and lowering your signal, how do you choose how much to apply to what? Some of these options are a little easier than others to choose: i.e. nobody really uses a guitar's volume knob for volume...it's pretty much a glorified tone knob. And if you're unfortunate enough to use an M-eq 230 like I do, the gain increase on there isn't worth ripping your fingers off trying to move those sucky miniscule faders. But the further you go into the signal chain, the more level tweaking you do. Where do you guys usually start? And when do you stop boosting?
Guitar volume knob-->
Effects processor preamp (Boss GT-6)-->
Guitar amp volume-->
Pre-fader gain on the mixer, if using inserts (compression, reverb, W/E)-->
Mixer faders-->
Auxilliary levels (equalizers, W/E)-->
Levels on whatever recording device is being used-->
and on and on and so forth, with even more headaches involving drums and mics and what-not. With so many options for raising and lowering your signal, how do you choose how much to apply to what? Some of these options are a little easier than others to choose: i.e. nobody really uses a guitar's volume knob for volume...it's pretty much a glorified tone knob. And if you're unfortunate enough to use an M-eq 230 like I do, the gain increase on there isn't worth ripping your fingers off trying to move those sucky miniscule faders. But the further you go into the signal chain, the more level tweaking you do. Where do you guys usually start? And when do you stop boosting?