How do u guys bring your drum samples and loops down to 0dbVU ?

[dance]

Hey I was wondering how do u guys bring your samples from sample cd's down to OdbVU= -14dbfs?
Most of the time samples from samples cd's are louder then that. I'm worrying about running out of headroom while mixing. Any suggestions?

Thanks for your time.

[Wolfgang Eller]

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What is the problem?

Cheers Wolfgang

[Arteksound]

pull down the fader?...... or am I missing something?


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[Felix]

or use audiosuite gain.
also, many times, i will run the sample out into my Fatso unit(using good convertors), and bring it back in at the appropriate volume.

[bryston]

Yeah, dont you hate that. Why does everything need to go to 0dbfs, especially elements like samples? My solution is to use a normal cd player and take it in analog through a console and adjust the level. If you dont use a console, you could do a bounce to disk, or use the gain plugi-in before anything else.

[Donny]

Maybe I'm missing something but....samples are supposed to be recorded hot so that they play correctly when triggered with midi when loaded into a sampler. Only a midi velocity of 127 will play them at full volume.

[Mike Tholen]

Originally posted by Donny:
Maybe I'm missing something but...

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[Alécio Costa]

I think the point here is overcompressed stereo samples. Maybe he wants to decompress them? They end up sounding like **** at the final stage.
so?