| Ed Littman wrote on Sat, 15 September 2007 09:18 |
| bblackwood wrote on Fri, 14 September 2007 23:49 |
| Ed Littman wrote on Fri, 14 September 2007 22:41 |
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you're using dorrough or logitek, no problem since it can read +20, and then you have both technical accuracy and useful range.
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Since getting Dorrough meters a bunch of years back that read up to +20
0vu= -20dbfs for me
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Do you trim the signal before your analog chain or run it through the analog gear that hot?
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I've been getting mixes that don't go higher than -3dbfs from my clients so no need to, but other wise I trim.
It seems that I'm the odd man out on this. Am I the only one with +20 dorrough meters?(+20=0dbfs)& since most analog gear has a maximum signal level arround 25db I would think it had the headroom .Am I missing something here?
Ed
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Gee, I thought I was the odd man out at -20dBFS = 0VU! That's what the LavryGold DAC was set at when I got it so we decided to leave it there.
My experience is that I'm lowering the gain to go into my analog chain about 90% of the time and leaving it at 0 or raising it about 10%. I use one of my TC 6000 modules for the digital gain staging. While its not completely neutral, it doesn't bother me. I'd like to try something analog here, as described in a previous thread, but its not on the front burner here.
When I use tape, I like it 1st thing in the analog chain and the levels into it are very critical whereas when not using it, I can often get away with using my TubeTech to alter the gain into the rest of my analog gear.
Of course I have to make it up later.
So I guess I should consider setting a new standard here.
