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asnively · Last edited by asnively on Fri Feb 27, 2009 1:57 am; edited 1 time in total

Before compression, normalization, in-software amplification, and SimonizingÂ™, what are your raw levels?
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Deirdre · Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 11:35 am Post subject:

Between -4.5 and -1.8.

I don't know if this will make sens on anyone else's setup—that's the gain level when I measure it in Pro Tools.
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Bruce · Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 11:43 am Post subject:

About the same on my Audio Desk software...I aim for a -5 average with occasional peaks up to -2. It seems to make all the people I send audio to happy.

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Hart · Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 12:00 pm Post subject:

Generally around -6 db
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Tom Greenlee · Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 12:08 pm Post subject:

wish I could achieve those levels. I control my input into my audio interface so that it is just below clipping, but the USB output to the computer can't be controlled and I end up with a signal at anywhere between -18 and -21 at the peaks in Audition 2.....the only way to increase the signal strength in Audition 2 is to increase the input into the audio interface which puts in the clipping range. So I have to normalize up to get to a -6 signal level.
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Not only would I like to know what the others are recording at, I'd love to know what I am.
With Pro Tools, I thought it could reasonably be measured by recording dead air and then checking your wave line reading.
But mine comes in a -10.4 db, and that sounds way too good.
Absent a sound meter, are there other ways to get a reading?

asnively · Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 12:13 pm Post subject:

That's my problem, too. To record without distortion, I'm coming in at about -18 to -15.

Jeffrey Kafer · Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 12:42 pm Post subject:

Diane Maggipinto · Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 12:43 pm Post subject:

I'm against normalizing.
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Normalize now! Power to the people!

Tom Greenlee · Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 12:46 pm Post subject:

when you can't achieve a distortion free level any other way, then you have no choice. Sounds like Amy and I have the same issue....can't get a strong enough signal into our recording software without clipping on the input.
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Jeffrey Kafer · Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 12:47 pm Post subject:

Tom Greenlee · Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 12:54 pm Post subject:

Don't know......Mic goes into the preamp.....preamp into the audio interface.....USB cable for the output from the audio interface into the computer and Audition 2. Set the levels on the preamp so there is no clipping going in to the preamp.....then set the level of the input to the audio interface so that there is no clipping there.....the result is a signal in Audition that is anywhere from -21 to -18 db on the display. The only way to raise that raw input signal in Audition, is for me to allow more input into the audio interface which in turn raises the signal level in audition....the problem being is that raising the input level of the audio interface causes the clipping light to illuminate on the audio interface....so.....to have a clipping free audio signal, I end up with a signal strength of -21 to -18 in Audition......to raise that level, I then have to normalize to -6.
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TheVoiceOfBob · Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 12:55 pm Post subject:

I used to normalize, but I started messing with the "Compander" setting in the "Dynamics Processing" in Audition. That gives my voice level some added punch, brings it up a bit, and drops the floor down some to where the silent portions are truly SILENT.
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Jowillie · Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 12:56 pm Post subject:

In the digital world, where over-modulation spells distortion, it may be best to "normalize" to around 95%. (read like DLF)
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