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Old 19th September 2008   #6
Ryan Earnhardt
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If you think about each bit beyond the 16 bit that your recording, (24-16=8) Your getting 8 bits of dynamic range, which is 42 dB more. Even if you had tracked the drums way down at -20, you still have plenty of signal. "kissing the red" is way way too hot. I would consider that tracke a dud. It's also really anoying to have to keep turning down the track, everytime you eq ( if you do additive adjustments to the eq curve) cause your adding some gain at that frequency point. Plus compression...it's just a mess. think of margins on a page.

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