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back to basics.. which maximum mix master level?

Hi friends! In early 90's, referring to 44.1/48k/16 bit masters coming from DAT machines, SVHS ADATs and so, people urged mixing engineers to stay at o db at the louder passes. However, nobody had a real reliable clip counter.

I have lost the number of how many times I received DAT tapes for my junior mastering with up to 64 clips at the left or right or even both channels.

how do I treat this horrible audio signal?

I went to a show in New Orleans a couple of months ago. I went to record a band I admire very much (Deadboy and the Elephantmen).com I had my AKG C3000, and a video camara. Well on the way down there my mic got busted up with half of my luggage. So I just recorded the show with the camcorder's mic. Well I knew It wasn't going to be good, but I didnt know it would be this bad either.

bouncing to disk

hey maybe some one has a view on this
I'm using Cubase 5.1
and I'm about ready to bounce the whole project to
a two channel mix.
now Cubase is currently set at 32 bit recording at 44.1.
there is realy only a few audio tracks the rest
are Vsti which get rendered upon export.
i have the option on export to up the sample rate

Extra bits. .

If I digitally load 44/16 mat'l into the DAW at 44/24, am I gaining any resolution?, or is the DAW just recording extra 0's?

Do plugs profit from the extra bit room?

Also, if I have a 44/24 file in the DAW and digitally dump to DAT or CD-R, what happens to the other bits? Truncated?, or what?

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