[RWP] at the risk of incriminating myself

[Rainee]

The problem is, I have both the mixer's master volume  and the board 
down as far as I can get it and still hear. Thanks for any help you can 
offer. I feel like I'm still such a baby at this.

On 11/26/2011 3:47 AM, colin McDonald wrote:
> your input to the soundcard is way way too high if you have to bring 
> reaper down by 30DB and still get clipping.
> the clipping is likely happening before the soundcard, so no matter 
> how much you bring the volume down in reaper, the source is clipping 
> so you can't get rid of it unless you turn the source input down IE 
> the keyboard, or trim/attenuator on the mixer.
> The great thing about reaper, is it has massive head room to turn 
> things up, so record your source at a lower volume, then bring it 
> up...far better than trying to get rid of unwanted distortion or 
> clipping from the source.
> It's always easier to increase volume, than try to fix a clipping 
> issue once it's recorded.
>
> regards
> Colin
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> Sent: Friday, November 25, 2011 5:37 PM
> Subject: [RWP] at the risk of incriminating myself
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>
>> OK, this might be a totally elementary question here, but what is the 
>> average default volume level you usually use to avoid clipping? I'm 
>> using a mixer and a keyboard right now, and I have things at minus 30 
>> DB, and it's still clipping a bit.
>>
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