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Originally Posted by absrec Are there any calibration tests or listening tests that can help you find the sweet spot of your console? What do you mean by gain staging? |
the only listening tests are the mixes you do. finding the sweet spot on a desk is no different than on a woman; all it takes it courage, devotion, and your undivided attention, over and over and over. perform, listen, adjust, listen.
gain staging is everything. you can come out of a converter at Xdbfs, and use your input trim on a channel until you hit the channel enough that the fader is close to unity and that's the ballpark for the mix. or, you can push the input trim, and pull back the fader... different sound altogether. or, you can leave the trim as is and push the output of the daw... another different sound.
within the console, this all applies too. how high your faders are that feed the bvox buss, how hot the level hitting the bvox comp, how hot that comes back into the desk. eq is another biggie, fat boosts eat your headroom quick.
all consoles have a limited amount of juice to receive and spit back audio, and they all have their own personalities as you approach, hit, then surpass that limit. learning how much of that juice to use on inputs, on faders, on the master buss, this is part of the learning curve with desks. each one is different, and the music and mix style you bring to the table rounds out the house of variables. some people love 8068's because of how incredibly open they are, and others love them for the way they fold down when hit just the right way.
only one way to learn this stuff, so have fun!
gregoire
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