ashcat_lt
Well-known member
Once it's in the box, your noise floor is basically set. The digital noise floor is absolutely, without a doubt, lower than what's on the tracks themselves and will be completely masked by that inherent noise floor of the mix itself. As long as the analog staging was reasonable going in, you're as good as you're going to get, and adding a little gain isn't really going to make your s/n noticeably worse. (Unless you use some fancy modeled plugin that adds noise for "authenticity")
7-10db is actually pretty good. As has been mentioned, you don't need a limiter if you're happy with about 19db crest factor. That's way big for most modern music, and will be much quiter than about anything else you'd have in your shuffle. If you go back to the mix, figure out why the right side peaks 3db higher than the left, and fix that[/], then you can get up to about 16db, which is still a bit quiet. Could work for some real dynamic stuff, but I'd want it a bit tighter. I'd be willing to bet that a little more dicking around with the mix could get you closer to 14db which would be pretty ok.
7-10db is actually pretty good. As has been mentioned, you don't need a limiter if you're happy with about 19db crest factor. That's way big for most modern music, and will be much quiter than about anything else you'd have in your shuffle. If you go back to the mix, figure out why the right side peaks 3db higher than the left, and fix that[/], then you can get up to about 16db, which is still a bit quiet. Could work for some real dynamic stuff, but I'd want it a bit tighter. I'd be willing to bet that a little more dicking around with the mix could get you closer to 14db which would be pretty ok.