Granted, I'm a Windows guy, but do you have a way of routing VO and
other system sounds through different outputs, or a different speaker
or headphones?
In Windows I have system sounds and my screen reader going through a
secondary interface.
At 09:11 AM 5/7/2014, you wrote:
Slau,
I have a question then,
I find that on my monitors, if I leave my volume slider in ProTools
on a vocal track at 0%, then on my interface, I turn my gain dial
way down to the point where in PT, on that track, it shows -18DB,
that is so profusely quiet, that I literally almost cannot even hear
it unless I turn my monitors almost 3 fourths the way up. Which of
corse is way! way! quieter than Voiceover speech, or say my music
instrument tracks etc. In order to get a good level that is
audible, I'm having to way raise that gain. Even if I don't raise
the gain on my interface, but pull the slider on the track in PT all
the way to +12DB, which is practically all the way up, it only then
starts! to become audible. I know you're probably saying, then, ok,
Chris, you're music is way way way too hot. Crank it way the hell
down! If I do that, then again, the over all level is very crisp
and clean and doesn't clip, but at the same time, compared to my
over all volume, PT not with standing, the recording volume is so
pathetically low in comparison to everything else, that if I crank
it up enough to hear it, any other sound that gets fed through like
Alex from Voiceover etc. literally is deafening! I understand we're
talking two different levels here. the one on my interface is the
input volume, whilst the one on the track in PT is the output
volume, I totally get that. I'm just not sure how to keep that
input gain on my interface real real low, yet achieve the same level
on the output volume without having to bring that input gain so
hot. I do have an insert I sometimes pop on a vocal track, it's
just one of the default pre-installed dynamic compression plugins,
and yeah, if I set the preset to vocal leveler, it helps some, but I
don't always want compression. All I need is an output volume only
boost. I thought about using a Pre, if I could find a good hardware
one that was accessible, but even that is gonna be for the input
gain, not the output.
So, if you have any suggestions, or think you may know what is going
on, let me know.
Chris.
----- Original Message -----
From: <mailto:[email protected]>Slau Halatyn
To: <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2014 8:35 AM
Subject: Re: Monitoring levels
Chris,
If you're in danger of clipping, you're recording way too hot. With
something like a vocal, your final peak should be -9 to -6 dB full
scale. That means your average level should be in the range of -18
to -12 dB. That's what headroom is for. You're recording with 24
bits which give you a theoretical dynamic range of of 140 decibels.
The sources you're recording are nowhere near 140 decibels, not even
close. By pulling back your level, you'll eliminate any concern over
clipping. Pro Tools is designed to have average levels at -18 dB. 18
decibels of headroom is plenty for just about anything you'll ever record.
Slau
On May 7, 2014, at 6:54 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland
<<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]> wrote:
I'm 100% perfectly aware that I can monitor the level of an
individual track by interacting with it, then finding the meter,
and then, I can keep hitting vo+F3 to read what's under the
Voiceover cursor. what however I'm looking for, is something
slightly more robust. Is there a way, and if so, how, that I could
asign a hotspot or something similar then have it where it won't
read the meter automatically, no, however, if, and only! if, I
clip, it'll automatically trigger voiceover to say clipped, or to
read the meter in such of a way I'll know I'm clipping? Sometimes,
with my hearing loss, it's slightly tricky for me to know audibly,
until it gets where it's so badly clipping, that it's flat out
disgusting. The issue is, yeah, I could manually look, but what if
I only clip on say, one note? If I sing right over that note for
instance then check the meter one or two notes early/late, I might
miss something very very important. I'm just wonderring the best
way to hit that meter dead spot on, so I know instantly! that I'm clipping.
Chris.
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