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I use Addictive Drums for my drums, then i would like to record Addictive Drums to separate audio tracks for editing. The thing is, one of the Addictive Drum kit presets is set high, so when i play Addictive Drums back, it sometimes clips and goes red. I know thats not good, since i want to leave room for editing, but what color or level do i want to keep my drums at max? I heard i want to keep the drums at low yellow, or below red at peak. Is that bout right? Im just wondering since i base the rest of my songs, like guitar, and synth off the drums, volume wise, and i don't want the drums to be too loud so that i dont accidentally record the guitars too high and have everything clipping.
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I'd keep things in the green barely touching the yellow.
The reason is simple, what you see is in the vu is what's coming in for each tracks. When you go and add eq's and effects that's going to add to the track. If you have everything in the upper yellow brushing the red, then when ever you will add eq, comp, expansion, and other effects, you will be clipping because you won't have enough headroom. Keep things in the green barely touching the yellow and when ever you add effects, you'll have plenty of headroom.
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So yes as you add EQ's and compressors and the like, your sound might get louder. Example you got a bass sample and you add 6 db in the low end, well your overall volume for the bass just got 6 db higher because you added that boost. That's the reason why you need headroom, because if you boost anything in an eq, or add reverb on the track it self instead of an aux track, then you get that overall volume louder for that track, and if you don't have head room you're going to peak. And to answer your question, yes it will.
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The "green" is perfect. 24bit word has 144dB dynamics and your end product most likely only has 14dB or less. There's no point in trying to "hit zero" when tracking! There are possible problems, but not a single benefit from doing so.
Even if you left 48dB headroom, you would still have a full 16bit word (96dB) to play with, and I think quite many of us can agree that CD's can play loud enough... Anyone want to try recording way lower than the green/yellow line? There's a volume knob on your monitor controller, use it for volume.
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+1 for staying in the green, especially when using heat or if there are many tracks.
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Great Advice.. I believe they are colored that way for obvious reasons
![]() There's nothing worse than trying to tweak a snare that is red lining...and already over compressed. ![]() You might want to be sure you are recording 32-bit also, just in case your gain staging gets sacked.. or at least until you get more comfortable with it. |
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