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Originally Posted by MarkRB  No, it is whatever you want it to be.
Digital full scale and analogue metering are different.
Analogue hardware can handle peak levels of +6. =7dB or even 12db without breaking a sweat, whereas digital just STOPS dead at 0dB.
So you have to scale analogue down to allow yourself the headroom in a digital world.
It is entirely up to you where you decide to put analogue 0 in comparison to digital 0. You just have to set your gear up to whatever you need or want.
Does that make sense?
I'm sure someone with way better skills will come in and elaborate. |
its whatever you want it to be if you dont give a monkeys. The -18Dbfs is a standard suggested by the AES as representing 0. This allows you to go +12 into the red and process accordingly. If you line up the tape emulation plugins according to this, you'll find tht they behave a LOT more like their real world counter part rather than the mess that most seem to make o using them...
Set up according the AES -18Dbfs and you'll liberate yourself - no more overloading plugins is one benefit.... see the depth come back (halfway) to analogue recordings!
