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Old 21st June 2009   #9
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Originally Posted by meymia View Post
Please simplefy it for me.

If i have a blur robbie preamp (wich doesnt have a vu meter) and i record vox into cubase 5.


I just tell the singer to sing and i start turning the gain knob on the robbie till i see in the channel on cubase what? -18? and thats the robbie's 0?
OK, if you're simply recording straight from the Robbie into your ADC/audio interface the easiest way to set the gain would be 'by hand' keeping an eye on your digital meters in Cubase (this is the dBFS reading). If you're recording at 24 bit (and you should be) just make sure your peaks don't go over about -8 dBFS on the input (i.e. the input meter in Cubase).
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