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You want to leave room to add effects...



I don't grasp why adding effects necessarily increases the decibel level. You are augmenting what is there, not adding anything more.

I also don't get why taking a wave form that is recorded at -6db and doing a gain change of +3 db does or does not equal a wave form recorded at -3db. If I am standing on a scale, and you hand me a 5 pound weight, the scale will show to be 5 pounds heavier. Or if I stand on the scale and eat hot dogs non stop until I consume enough that I weigh 5 pounds more, either way the result is that the scale shows 5 more pounds than when I started.

I mention that scenario because many times while playing with mixdown I have watched the VU meters register "X", and then I go to a track here or there and do a 2db boost, and the VU meters never change, so I think I need to get clear in my mind the db level or each track vs how the summed total of those tracks affect the overall db level of the output.

I am really SO new to this side of the mixer....

I am using the new 1040XTRAEZ form this year. It has just 2 lines.

1. How much did you make in 2023?
2. Send it to us.