I wanted to find out if anyone has had a simiar problem with PreSonus Firestudio 2626 asymmetrical clipping distortion issues. The positive side only of recorded waveforms clip at -6dbfs on some channels as can be seen and verified in my DAW(Sonar).

is hitting 0 dBfs considered clipping? The reason I ask is because I just purchased a PreSonus central station and the LED meter considers 0dBfs a clip.

I read that I should get my peaks at -6dbfs and the rest at -18dbfs

so on my keyboard I can pound a single note and get -6dbfs at the peak and then the sustain will drop down to about -18

or I can pound a chord (which makes it much louder) so I have to adjust the input knob down

so should I use a chord to get my levels right?

is this the technique you use?

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Hello everyone,

I am recording in Cubase SX 3 and have read many threads about

propper levels going in...ultimately aiming for 0 dbVU. Now, it is my

understanding that 0 dbVU is roughly -18 to -20 dbfs so today when I was

bouncing a synth part (vst) I set the level out of the synth to about zero

Out of curiosity what do you guys use as standard?

I know (from listening experience and from a TC Electronic paper) that a lot of consumer CD players will additionally clip the signal beyond 0dBFS when D/A'ing and things are so hot.

In which case I suspect -0.3 instead of 0dBFS doesn't make any difference - probably should be at least -3dB or something..