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Yes. Use with caution. Grain of salt. Etc. Etc.

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Capt. Black wrote:Yes. Use with caution. Grain of salt. Etc. Etc.

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benderissimo wrote:
Timi wrote:I don't like using the word "wrong" when talking about recording, but assuming you're recording digitally tip #1 is bad advice and your recordings should sound considerably "better" by keeping your levels more conservative and leaving more available headroom, mine certainly sounded a hell of a lot better when I started being more careful with gain staging.

Of course, whatever sounds "best" is the right way....
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Something to bare in mind reading through Capt's post- there are a lot of different flavours of 0dB. 0dBFS ≠ 0dBu ≠ 0dBSPL ≠ 0dBLKFS etc etc.

Recording at 0dB on a correctly calibrated VU meter is good practice. Recording at 0dBFS is a guarantee of digital clipping.
This is a nice VU meter if anyone is looking: http://www.gearslutz.com/board/new-prod ... e-vst.html
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I like these, good VU meters too.

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badmotor wrote:
benderissimo wrote:
Timi wrote:I don't like using the word "wrong" when talking about recording, but assuming you're recording digitally tip #1 is bad advice and your recordings should sound considerably "better" by keeping your levels more conservative and leaving more available headroom, mine certainly sounded a hell of a lot better when I started being more careful with gain staging.

Of course, whatever sounds "best" is the right way....
This. Big time.

Something to bare in mind reading through Capt's post- there are a lot of different flavours of 0dB. 0dBFS ≠ 0dBu ≠ 0dBSPL ≠ 0dBLKFS etc etc.

Recording at 0dB on a correctly calibrated VU meter is good practice. Recording at 0dBFS is a guarantee of digital clipping.
This is a nice VU meter if anyone is looking: http://www.gearslutz.com/board/new-prod ... e-vst.html
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I use Pro Tools and to be honest I have no idea what standard the meters are or how they're calibrated, but if I treat yellow as red and try to stay in the green everything just sounds better.

Pres are different though, I sometimes run them quite hot with a barrel attenuator on the output.

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Oooooh. Nice tip. Cheers.

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Capt. Black wrote:Oooooh. Nice tip. Cheers.
Did you notice the name change of the forum?
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Polar Bear wrote:Nzrecordingtipsforthestudiobeitathomeorprofessional.com
That would be a site name change as opposed to a forum name change, forum being a component part of the site. The site is a collection of 'forums' which are then split into sub-forums, threads and posts. The word forum to describe the site is therefore a misnomer. kthxbye.

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BG wrote:
Capt. Black wrote:Oooooh. Nice tip. Cheers.
Did you notice the name change of the forum?
Yes dear, I did.

At least, I noticed something. But I wasn't paying that much attention.

Whatever it was, I'm sure it's fabulous. Thank you. Xxx

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Capt. Black wrote:
BG wrote:
Capt. Black wrote:Oooooh. Nice tip. Cheers.
Did you notice the name change of the forum?
Yes dear, I did.

At least, I noticed something. But I wasn't paying that much attention.

Whatever it was, I'm sure it's fabulous. Thank you. Xxx
so, steak and bloweys all round :)
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Are you migrating threads to or from the one called The Studio?

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BG wrote:
Capt. Black wrote:
BG wrote: Did you notice the name change of the forum?
Yes dear, I did.

At least, I noticed something. But I wasn't paying that much attention.

Whatever it was, I'm sure it's fabulous. Thank you. Xxx
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