DLC86
Fractal Fanatic
Check the pan law setting in your daw!
Yesterday I was doing some reamps with cubase 10 but noticed that reamped tracks didn't sound the same as those recorded directly.
Since they seemed to have less gain I checked the levels of the DI track and those "seen" by the axe usb input and noticed the latter were 6dB lower.
After a while I discovered that was due to the pan law setting being at -6dB by default, setting it at 0dB restored unity gain and all was perfect.
PS: for those that don't know what pan law is, it basically is a setting that compensates for the perceived loss of volume when panning a track to one side, but it usually does this by attenuating tracks that are center-panned by a given amount.
It can be very useful when mixing but not so useful when you need unity gain like in this case.
Yesterday I was doing some reamps with cubase 10 but noticed that reamped tracks didn't sound the same as those recorded directly.
Since they seemed to have less gain I checked the levels of the DI track and those "seen" by the axe usb input and noticed the latter were 6dB lower.
After a while I discovered that was due to the pan law setting being at -6dB by default, setting it at 0dB restored unity gain and all was perfect.
PS: for those that don't know what pan law is, it basically is a setting that compensates for the perceived loss of volume when panning a track to one side, but it usually does this by attenuating tracks that are center-panned by a given amount.
It can be very useful when mixing but not so useful when you need unity gain like in this case.
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