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Let me preface this post by saying that I'm "pretty sure" this is the case. The top displays the maximum.Īlso if you tell us what kind of mics you bought we can tell you good ways to use them. With your workstation, the bottom of the meter represents the smallest amount of sound that will register. If you have to push the fader way up to get the signal within range, then you may need to increase the input sensitivity(mic gain rim), move the mic closer to the source, or increase the volume of the source.(only if it is really quiet.) If your fader is at zero and it reads too high on the meter, than pulling it down reduces the volume.(in this case the sensitivity of the mic might need to be decreased by turning it down, or moving it away from the source.) You don't really want to amplify it any more than you have to, because then you are probably amplifying noise too. In theory, 0db on the fader is "unity gain" This means that you are not amplifying the signal any, but you are not subtracting amplitude from it either. With respect to the volume I will try to explain. See the acoustics section of this site for info. With specific examples you will find much help there.Īs for the acoustic issues, you will nee to do something.
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All of the signal processing features will take lots of practice and there is no way to explain how to use them in general. If you do things this way you will have a clean sound recorded. You do not need to as this is way above the level of the noise in the machine. Your track level(vu meter) should read -10 to -15db. Re-check to make sure that your signal isn't clipping, and then check the level on your track. Next listen to your sound, and change the placement of the mic if you dont like it. Once you see this, back off a little bit. The simplest thing for you to do is to set your mic gain(input sens on the roland)by soundchecking the item to be recorded and turning it up until you see a clip(red light on the channel). If you have adats, record lower than you think you should by 5-10 db, the level meters on these guys lie and tell you they are lower than they really are.(try-20 to -15 on an adat) Now if you record with digital stuff, the noise floor is much lower, and you can record at -5 -10 or -15db without fear of noise probs.
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Plus 3 is okay, plus six is dangerous, and when you saturate a tape with a hot signal the sound changes a bit too.(I kind of like it.) Look it up, good info.Īnyway, if you are recording tracks to tape, try to stay as close to zero as you can without clipping. Originally called the leveling amplifier. This was the real reason a compressor was invented. You need to make the level of your recording higher than this by quite a bit, in order to "bury" this noise. Put all of them together in the signal chain and you get what's called a noise floor. In digital, zero is the point of distortion or clipping. Over the plus 3 or 6, your signal will distort, under -20 your signal is too weak. Vu meters usually show you from about -20 to plus 3 or 6. If you look on a channel fader, at the bottom you will see -infinity.
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If that's a problem you can use full wave rectifier or bump up the amplification.Every peice of equipment has a certain dynamic range.
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Simplest circuit would be just diode, resistor, meter in series (with optional cap in parallel with meter. (sometimes) amplify it if meter needs too much voltage.rectify the signal - those meters measure DC voltage so you need signal to only go to positive.Just connect it to regulated power supply and slowly increase the voltage find what voltage is max range of that meter.In rough strokes (i'm assuming you're talking about those analog needle meters) you need to