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Originally Posted by tchipman
my pre-fader number is around -18 to -15 using the Mojave. That's not turned all the way up either......so maybe I'm OK. Back when I started people were telling me to get as hot of a signal as I could without clipping ...pre-fader. Now I don't believe people are generally operating that way
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You are doing just fine.
Math goes like this: 24bit WAV has theoretically 144dB dynamic range and given that your converter spec says 119dB dynamics then you lose ABSOLUTELY NOTHING if your highest recorded peaks are -25dBFS so no real need to record any hotter than that.
Just turn up the master volume
(those "try to get a hot signal" talks were relevant in the 16bit era where your audio file could only handle 96dB dynamics. also one of the reasons early digital sounded "harsh" -- because you were driving your AD conversion to the limit. no need to do that any longer)