nicketynick;150811 Wrote: > In fact a good question. I was recording at 100% with both cartridges - > I was up in the red quite a bit with the original cartridge, so maybe I > was overdoing it. > I think I'm probably OK from a S/N consideration - I've noticed that > it's actually finding the track breaks a little better now (with the > dial set to -50dB rather than having to drop it to -46 or -48dB). I'm > probably making a big fuss over nothing, but never hurts to ask > questions! Why not learn in advance of making the mistakes?
You don't ever want to hit more than 100% (0dB) when recording digitally. It's not like with old analogue tape. Personally I'd rather record 3dB below and normalize afterward (or just skip the normalizing step and turn up the volume a bit when playing back!). -- P Floding ------------------------------------------------------------------------ P Floding's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2932 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29186 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
