Re: Blue Sky...
Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2018 5:56 pm
I don't understand why printing one effect (compression) on a few tracks (vocals) is going to have such a great effect of reducing the load on my cpu and memory, thereby resulting in audible improvements.
Is singing through a dynamic mic into guitar stompbox going to result in a better vocal sound vs. going straight into my Presonus Firepod's preamps with my AT2040, thereby preserving the dynamic range for whatever processing I want to use later?
My DAW is a quad core i7 with 16G of RAM that runs dozens of plug-ins without breaking a sweat.
Also, with 140dB of dynamic range, why would one record at low levels? I carefully set the input on the preamps on my interface to get a nice hot signal so that I have plenty to work with while I'm mixing. Not so hot that it clips, but hot enough that I'm actually using that dynamic range, not recording a meek signal down in the digital mud. It's not an either/or.
Is singing through a dynamic mic into guitar stompbox going to result in a better vocal sound vs. going straight into my Presonus Firepod's preamps with my AT2040, thereby preserving the dynamic range for whatever processing I want to use later?
My DAW is a quad core i7 with 16G of RAM that runs dozens of plug-ins without breaking a sweat.
Also, with 140dB of dynamic range, why would one record at low levels? I carefully set the input on the preamps on my interface to get a nice hot signal so that I have plenty to work with while I'm mixing. Not so hot that it clips, but hot enough that I'm actually using that dynamic range, not recording a meek signal down in the digital mud. It's not an either/or.