Timothy Stockman wrote,
| Here are some questions and observations regarding analog
| recording on the JE520. Does anyone know what tradeoffs
| are involved in using the analog input level adjustment on the
| setup menu?
AFAIK, none.
| Given that one usually likes to maximize the level on the disc
| to make the best use of the available disc (is this indeed true
| with ATRAC encoding?), does it make sense to ever adjust
| the record level setup to less than 0?
Yes, if the analog input is, without adjustment, loud enough to peak above
0 dB and get clipped. (For digital input, there is no reason to set the gain
below 0 dB; if the source is already clipped, nothing can undo that and bring
back the original waveforms.)
| Unless I hear a reason not to do so, I'll continue to leave the setup level
| adjustment at 0.0 and make the adjustment with an external pot.
If the external pot doesn't affect the sound any other way, then that should
work.
Somebody emailed me privately once that he believed in setting the levels
very low just to be absolutely safe from clipping, and then boosting them
with the volume knob at playback, and he saw no downside to that. Somehow I
feel concerned that one would lose dynamic resolution that way. In any case,
whether the goal is to peak at 0 or to average -12, my problem is evening out
tracks from assorted CDs when I make a compilation.
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