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Originally Posted by Matt Grabe 
Regarding gain staging and optimal use of the analog front end ... I'm not so curious about the gain staging of the analog front end. I assume that those who track towards a mix still use their analog front end (preamps, compressors, eq's) are their optimal gain staging, and then use their tracking fader (or some other form of attenuation at the end of the chain) to balance out their tracks to tape/ProTools.
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Sorry, I probably didn't explain it so well but to have your mix near enough there with all faders at 0 is simply a result of optimum gain staging (i.e. adding as little additional noise to the chain as possible), and that is achieved in a large part by having your faders at 0.
Why add more gain and noise to have a hi-hat recording at 0vu when you are only going to have to turn it down 10dB come mix time?