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Originally Posted by Jules  (its a buzz getting a great sounding vibe going in the studio, having another engineer drop in and watching their split second eyebrow raise as they look at the faders and realize that what you have going on is 'all faders in a row' - its kind of an "engineering machismo" thing to do  |
Yeah, it does get people thinking. "what does he know that I don't?" and "how the hell is he getting everything so evenly balanced?" As our esteemed mod has pointed out, it's the gain pot most often. I once had an engineer with major label credits walk into a tracking session I was doing of a gospel act, using 36 of the console's 40 mic inputs, bussed to the 24 track and see that my monitor faders were all at unity. He looked like he was in a hurry when he walked in, but he stayed for the session, and even helped tear down.