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Originally Posted by JFreak
Better yet, think of yellow as the new red. Record using pre-fader metering. Stay in the green. There's nothing to be gained in yellow/orange area, unless your AD converter has greater than 129dB dynamic range (24bit fixed has 144dB dynamics). Usually even the greatest ones are in the 120dB area so if you're above green you're just amplifying noise.
So... check your AD converter specs. If it says it has 120dB dynamics range, then anything hotter than -24dBFS is only amplifying noise. If you want to be sure to get all that 120dB dynamics in use, give yourself 6dB (equivalent to one bit) margin for error, and think of -18dBFS as maximum quality. Have you ever heard of gear being calibrated to -18dBFS = 0VU perhaps? This is why.
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''Better yet, think of yellow as the new red'' That's It!!
