Cool set, but I wonder why you basically mix with your trim and have your eq on 2 o clock all of the time. Do you want like everything to clip and be more distorted or why? Sound engineers in the club would hate you ahahah.
Like it kinda boogles my mind that this still sounds good musically.
I can't recall any engineers being unhappy with me, but having played 100+ shows over the past 20 years, my memory could be off on some occasions. What I do is gain-matching into plenty of headroom. It's the only way to work with inconsistent source files, for one thing, and great fun if you have the ear for it. There is no clipping.
Like I know gain matching, but on your channels the Volume is constantly redlining like how does it not clip then? Like I dont really get the logic behind that working. I see that the Master does not clip. Do these Controller only have a limiter on the master and the channel redlights do not really mean something?
Limiter's master-only, and channel redlining is a pre-fader reference, not actual clipping. Everything gets pulled back down before it reaches the real output. Also, 32-bit floating point makes clipping a theoretical issue at that internal stage — real clipping can only happen at the final conversion.
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Ikonaka@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 57d
Cool set, but I wonder why you basically mix with your trim and have your eq on 2 o clock all of the time. Do you want like everything to clip and be more distorted or why? Sound engineers in the club would hate you ahahah. Like it kinda boogles my mind that this still sounds good musically.
Sepix@feddit.org · 1 pts · 57d
I can't recall any engineers being unhappy with me, but having played 100+ shows over the past 20 years, my memory could be off on some occasions. What I do is gain-matching into plenty of headroom. It's the only way to work with inconsistent source files, for one thing, and great fun if you have the ear for it. There is no clipping.
Ikonaka@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 56d
Like I know gain matching, but on your channels the Volume is constantly redlining like how does it not clip then? Like I dont really get the logic behind that working. I see that the Master does not clip. Do these Controller only have a limiter on the master and the channel redlights do not really mean something?
Sepix@feddit.org · 1 pts · 56d
Limiter's master-only, and channel redlining is a pre-fader reference, not actual clipping. Everything gets pulled back down before it reaches the real output. Also, 32-bit floating point makes clipping a theoretical issue at that internal stage — real clipping can only happen at the final conversion.