Audiofire 12 - Hot tracking Required?

[asagaai]

I have got an audiofire 12, which replaced delta 1010. Very happy with converters and sound generally.

With delta 1010 tracking vocals with pearlman tm1 and pacifica, I could not track without pad engaged on pacifica because there was too much signal-and with pad in the gain on pacifica was about 11.30 oclock.

With audiofire 12 I can now track with pearlman with pacifica without pad engaged, but with pad engaged, to get gain I need to have pacifica gain at between 2.00 and 3.00 o clock. I recorded a vocal track, and at that level it becomes very thick/gooey and on very low aspects of vocals a tad grainey.

Many ways to skin a cat, I will try running pealman to input 1 of pacifica-no pad, into input 2 of pacifica-pad and see what happens.

But-are other audiofire 12 users finding it needs a hot signal.

Flip side I also find that you can hit the converters real hard with the mix, and it clips well, which the Delta 1010 did not.

Cheers

GJ
Newcastle/OZ

[redddog]

I have not found that to be the case.

[andrew269]

why would you want digital clipping at mixdown?

[asagaai]

Originally Posted by andrew269

why would you want digital clipping at mixdown?

Because as a person born in Africa I like to be crude occassionally, like sending out the whole mix through analog paths real hot and then back into converters-now I agree you should theoretically never clip any signals-usually snare or other drum hits, but if you set all your gain and are going for as hot a signal as possible (to maximise volume before digital limiter involvement minimising digital limiter involvement/artifacts ) you may get occassional overs -and I found the audiofire 12 deals with drum overs well in this context.

Whereas more crappy converters sound crap-the sound of stepping on a really hard snail when it cracks.

It is also nice occassionally to break rules in one aspect of your life -and test the boundaries

GJ
Newcastle/OZ

[treymonfauntre]

ech, the thought of digital clipping seems so pointless

[MadGuitrst]

It's your nominal level settings. They are probably set differently on the Audiofire then they were on your last card, ie: -10 or +4.

Try changing them in the Audiofire console.