[Rwp] Determining Input (Recording) Peaks

[Scott Chesworth]

Hi Matej,

Sure, you could use the Peak Inspector for this. Most of the time here
though I just use J and K to check the left and right channels of the
armed track. The main advantage of Peak Inspector so far as I can tell
is that it can alert you when a defined threshold has been reached,
but it's kind of a dangerous game to be recording so close to 0 DB
that those alerts would be necessary on the way in. There's plenty of
articles on the web about the optimum level to aim for if you like to
read that stuff. Here, I generally aim for somewhere around -10 DB
unless it's a particularly dynamic signal, in which case I'll leave
some extra head room. Unfortunately, Reaper doesn't seem to have a
function where the meter will hold indefinitely at the loudest point
like some other DAWs do, so you'll need to practice catching a reading
that's close to the attack of the signal. Again, if in any doubt,
leave yourself some extra room for error.

Hth a bit. Yeah, there are quite a few keystrokes dedicated to
metering with ReaAccess, but many of them essentially do the same
thing.

Scott

On 2/8/15, Matej Golian via RWP <rwp at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
> Sorry, but any suggestions, anyone? :D
>
> 2015-02-06 14:39 GMT+01:00, Matej Golian <matej.golian at gmail.com>:
>> Hi,
>> sorry for yet another basic question, but I just can't figure it out
>> on my own. I'll get straight to the point.
>> Let's say that I want to record a musical keyboard. I create a new
>> track, select the 2 inputs of my audio interface into which my
>> keyboard is plugged in as the recording source for that track. So far
>> so good, but how do I know whether the input volume isn't too loud or
>> too low? Is this what the peak inspector is for or is the peak
>> inspector only usable in case of imported/already recorded audio?
>> If it is the peak inspector, is the process of detecting input volume
>> as simple as turning on the peak inspector, selecting the appropriate
>> options in the dialogue that appears and than pressing alt + F9
>> through F12 while playing the keyboard? I ask because in addition to
>> the ones I already mentioned quite a few shortcuts related to peak
>> detection seem to exist (j, k shift + j, shift + k).
>> Many thanks.
>>
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