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A Simple Headroom Test

With the possible exception of Pro Tools (maybe not now that its gone native?) all modern DAWs use floating point math internally. What this means is, when the signal exceeds full scale it doesn't actually clip: instead the decimal point simply floats along a step, and the mix bus suddenly has room to accommodate it.

Just ordered PM0.4N monitor (room placement?)

this will be my first legitimate pair of monitors so plz feel free to flame my choice as it is too late at this point for me to send em back... anyhow the reason I picked these over others was that everything I read about these said that they are nothing special but are very flat. hopefully they live up to that. so the real question is about room placement.

Please help! Can't get rid of room noise! Using USB mic

I bought an MXL USB .006 condenser mic in the hopes of recording voice-over tracks for my animations, and possibly doing some voice-over work. I use a MacBook Pro with Audacity, and the mic is on the "low" setting. No matter what I do, it seems that there is ALWAYS static and noise in the background!

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