Set your channel slider to about 70% of its travel, then adjust your input gain till you get a healthy signal on the meters without lighting the clip light. At that point, you're done.

hargerst said;
Set your channel slider to about 70% of its travel, then adjust your input gain till you get a healthy signal on the meters without lighting the clip light. At that point, you're done.

Gad! You make it sound so simple!.........Fats

Hi everyone,

I find that when I record just below clipping level on my DPS16 I have no more headroom left for adding eq. It's quite a different world from analog. I'm trying to use eq to compensate for some loss of in the sound (I don't really have words for this>. It seems I need to record at a lower level to save some headroom for later. I'm new to this so maybe I'm going in the wrong direction. Where can I find information on specific techniques for proper digital recording.

Mario,
You should be fine recording at a nominal level of -12 on the digital scale. Somewhere between -18 and -12 on digital (opinion varies) is where 0dB VU on analog is......Fats