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Old 26th October 2005   #14
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Originally Posted by frist44
yeah I guess there is a sacrifice of noise floor for resolution maybe. The noise floor in the end is probably the more important factor.

What's everyones tracking levels into the computer? -6dB.

I just recently read a bunch of stuff on converter performance and squashing the master buss in the computer and it seems something around -6dB would be ideal. I also saw some stuff about people no exceeding -6dB on any of the software faders (channels, subgroups, and master buss). any thoughts?

Brandon
Read through this: I posted a few examples of "slamming the mix buss".

http://gearslutz.com/board/showthrea...t=master+fader

I would record with peaks hitting between -18dbfs to -12dbfs. These levels seem to interface better with analog than nearly -0dbfs signals.
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