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PHILANDDON
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What's the argument for doing this, assuming you can just rol off anyway in your DAW DO you getter a better signal 'cause the preamp's roll-off doesn't include DSP?
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xstatic
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Sometimes yes. Some people prefer to track with absolutely no processing and do that stuff during mixdown, and some of us prefer to get it closer to the way we eant it on the way in. In the end it all comes down to the way each person prefers to do things in combination with the pre and post tools at their disposal.
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xfinsterx
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If i can get things done on the way in, ill do it.
When you're mixing 63 tracks you dont want to do a lot of track management that could have been avoided.
-Finster
When you're mixing 63 tracks you dont want to do a lot of track management that could have been avoided.
-Finster
scrubs
Not of sound mind
If you're getting a lot of proximity effect, or bass build up, that can really eat up your headroom, forcing you to track at a lower level to avoid clipping. Engaging the low-cut allows you to print a stronger signal, reducing noise.
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shackrock
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scrubs said:
yep, that's what i was about to type.
as well as eating up CPU usage later
giraffe
i love negative rep
and lets face it, you probably don't need much 45hz information on that mandolin track. 
c7sus
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giraffe said:and lets face it, you probably don't need much 45hz information on that mandolin track.
Or the bowed saw, either.
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tallman
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Of course, you'll notice that the pre-amp probably doesn't have a low-pass filter button. That's cause low frequencies eat more power than any other frequencies. Rolling off the highs isn't going to help much. Rolling off lows can save one third of your power on some instruments that have no desirable information in the low frequencies to begin with. If it's set reasonably low, you can use it on just about everything except kick drum, basses and optionally toms.
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xstatic
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I actually never HPF anything until I hear that it needs it. If I hear that it needs it during tracking though I will usually do it right there and then, unless it seems strange to need a hpf for that track, then I wait until mixdown when I have had more of a chance to give it consideration.