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Record your track this hot
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then pull the slider off to 0. Nothing. Dead quiet.

Then start mixing and move the fader accordingly until it blends how you want it.



That makes sense -- I don't see anything inherently wrong with that -- as look as the hot signal didn't clip during recording and distortion was introduced. There was one video (in one of these threads) where the instructor set the fader at 0 and then used the "trim" to get all the input tracks, one by one, to around -6db and that was his starting point for mixing levels. That seemed like an interesting methodology.


I went to live sound school out at one of the Universities in Calif.given by the top engineers in the business,and that is the theory they taught and how I do it to this day.They said you can tell a good engineer in 2 seconds. If you look at the console while the band is just playing, no solos or any "specials" happening, all faders in use will be at 0

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