| Digital to Digital Tracking and mixing
I know proper analogue to digital recording is based upon the calibration of A/D convertors. Meaning that if I record a 0dBVU signal through my convertors into my daw I should be tracking at -18dBfs (my A/D convertor calibration) on a 24bit system.
My question is, what is the digital to digital equivilent if any? Is there an optimun gain stage for setting my soft synths?
I have been tracking digitally between 2 computers and applying the same strategy as analogue, keeping my meters around -18dBfs. Is there any point to this and does it really matter if I track digital to digital at -18dBfs? By applying an analogue to digital style gain staging strategy, my soft synth outputs have to be set at an extremely low volume setting within the plugin (with the output computer mixer fader at unity) to acheive a -18dBfs reading in my recording daw.
Am i doing this right, I'm looking for technical answers to this please? |