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Message: [QUOTE="missilanious, post: 22638"] The best thing to look at is your calibration level, if say your soundcard was calibrated so that 0dbfs=+16dbm, if your going to record neer 0 in that situation do you really wan't your equipment running that hot, just to have the levels sit at -6 to -1dbfs your pres going to be running at a +10 to +15dbm level and eating up your pres headroom. A better way to lookk at things would be run your equipment at around 0 to +10dbu so you won't be running your pre that hot giving that your DAW levels in that calibration level would be from -16 to -6dbfs which gives your pre and DAW a little headroom incase of peaks also you might not clip your plugins internally either cause its got some headroom too, this isn't as bad with floating point but is very evident with fixed point math (internally clip the Q10 plugin in TDM and you will hear horrible results). [/QUOTE]