[RWP] at the risk of incriminating myself

[Jim Snowbarger]

Time to tap on a brother-in-laws's shoulder...  <grin>

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rainee" <sayhello at raineemusic.com>
To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2011 7:37 AM
Subject: Re: [RWP] at the risk of incriminating myself


> 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
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rainee" <sayhello at raineemusic.com>
>> To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
>> Sent: Friday, November 25, 2011 5:37 PM
>> Subject: [RWP] at the risk of incriminating myself
>>
>>
>>> 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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