A quick add to this post. (busy day ahead)

I was confused about levels as well when I started learning about this and I'm am certainly not an expert but Bob and John are right, you have to mix lower than the old analog console way.

Eddie, go to the website I put up in the other thread and have a read on the "Mastering & Gain Staging" section. 0db on the analog scale is equivalent to -18db digital. If you are working with the analog levels on a digital system, then all you levels will be too hot.

On the videos I bought,the mixing engineer,(a pro with 30 years experience,the audio engineer at Columbia Records, etc, etc) had all his levels as he was mixing low. Around -18db, -12db even lower in some cases to allow for further processing. It was an eye-opener for me.

This is the link for the article on mastering & gain staging (not to the recording school where I get my videos from)

http://www.independentrecording.net/irn/resources/index.php


If you are interested in the videos I use, here is the link (I'm not trying to push this on you, it's just there if you want to have a look)

http://recordingschool.biz/homerecording/index.php

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