I'm just curious, can someone explain your gain settings on a mixer's preamp section vs the "level" (volume) setting? It the level passive attenuation while the gain is true amplification?

Hey Gang,,,

One day when i finally get my home project studio built, I plan to go with control room and 1 record room,

Hey Gang,,,

One day when i finally get my home project studio built, I plan to go with control room and 1 record room,

I have an E-MU 1820 Digital Audio System connected to my 2.8Ghz PC. It's connected with the thick cable that comes out of the back of the E-MU (ADAT?). I'm using a Shure KSM27 microphone and Im recording in an isolated room in the basement.

Ok, I just picked this guy up from L&M on the weekend and I haven't had much time to play around with it yet (2 hours) but I've noticed something that kind of bugs me. I plugged in an SM57 to record acoustic guitar with, just as a quick little test. I also plugged in a direct line from my guitars active pickup. Both lines were into pre-amp channels 1 and 2 on the 400f respectively.

Hi,

To mix several signals in stereo, there is the mixing console, of course ! But i need no eq, no pan, no level control etc... no active circuitry... What i want is just to mix 2 stereo signal that goes out from 2 preamps (BG1), into a 2 tracks recorder (BB+)... (to 'copy' the Nagra V with its 4 inputs !)

Help we are confused!

All of my mixes have level issues. I'm not looking for "industry standard" volume, or would be foolish enough to even believe I have the knowledge or equipment to achieve it. That said, my stuff is pretty weak.

Example: http://www.switchrocks.com/Songs/DreamSequence.mp3

I recently did a budget gig. I got all sort of complaints on the main mix. People said they could only "see" my guitarsolo's but not hear them and there was way too much drum and bass. We didn't have a pro sound engineer like we do on normal gigs, but a former pro (so I was told) who volunteered.

what mixing level should we have at the Cubase main output bus in order to have a good level to send to a mastering studio ?
should we let it pass the 0db level ?

It seems it generates a too low level like this not showing 0db peaks in wavelab ...