greiswig
Power User
I've always been pretty conservative on my output levels, I thought. Then in this thread, Cliff said that my levels were "way too hot" and that was why I was getting buzz.
I'd gone back at the time and checked, and the scenes in question on that preset were running around -12dB according to my UA Apollo Twin.
So I don't understand what was too hot, but I lowered my presets 6dB further anyway. But now I'm thinking: how can that be right? What I want to do is get all my scenes and presets to about the same overall level (via audio and meters), and have a filter block that lets me boost volume for leads, typically by 4-6dB. So I know that I have to leave probaby 2dB over even that for headroom and transients. But that means that my non-boosted patches could be averaging about -8dB without issue, right? Not -18dB where they are hitting now as measured via AES input on the Apollo Twin.
According to the meters, the analog outputs only get as loud as the AES output when the output control is dimed, so that shouldn't be an issue either.
Am I missing something?
I'd gone back at the time and checked, and the scenes in question on that preset were running around -12dB according to my UA Apollo Twin.
So I don't understand what was too hot, but I lowered my presets 6dB further anyway. But now I'm thinking: how can that be right? What I want to do is get all my scenes and presets to about the same overall level (via audio and meters), and have a filter block that lets me boost volume for leads, typically by 4-6dB. So I know that I have to leave probaby 2dB over even that for headroom and transients. But that means that my non-boosted patches could be averaging about -8dB without issue, right? Not -18dB where they are hitting now as measured via AES input on the Apollo Twin.
According to the meters, the analog outputs only get as loud as the AES output when the output control is dimed, so that shouldn't be an issue either.
Am I missing something?