I'm new to recording and while tracking my gain levels were low(i know)...i have to turn it up pretty high when playing back...but i get hiss from the speakers at this point and it sounds terrible...any ideas?maybe run the whole thing through a pre to bring it up?

please..any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Noobie here. yes, you have endured one novice question before and I ask for your patience again. . Have any of you ever used the gain in a vintage compressor like the LA4 to preamp a mic signal? I did this the other night as my Ward Beck's aren't powered yet and I had to test a new reverb so I ran my tube mic into the Urei and then to the reverb then to an XLR into Pro Tools.

Hi there

I have a problem understanding where to set my levels when I track an instrument. Here is my setup:

Instrument > to cheap Behringer mixer > seasound soloist > Sonar

I don't know where to go as high as I can without peaking, and where to leave headroom?

I plan on purchasing a Shure SM7B for hip hop vocals, and I also plan on purchasing the Mbox 2 with Pro Tools to accompany it in recording. I've heard about problems with using the SM7 with an interface/pre that doesn't have enough gain to handle it, so I was just curious if the Mbox 2 will work well to get solid, clean recordings with the SM7.

Thanks!

when i record into Pro Tools it seems like I'm not making the best of my input gain. i have my first 8 channels going into my 002 via the ADAT light pipe and then i have another 4 channels going into the 4 line level inputs, not the pre's. I'm not using those..

Hi!
Great forum here. I am new to the forum. I figured you guys could help. I have some old OSA (old school audio) api clones and i want to replace the pots. Currently they have 10k, 1w, linear taper. The gain slope is weird with linear. Brent averill uses 25k log/audio. some people say to use 22k rev log.

do anyone uses any kind of processing to get a more stable and less buzz rattle and crack sounds recording hi gain guitars? or do you simply use Micing and eq?

Hi all.

And first of all, pardon my noobishness.

My problem is that my primary langauge isn't english and I'm kinda lost and don't know what to search for. So I've decided to hop in here and try to describe my problem, so hopefully someone will know how to help me.

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