[Rwp] Determining Input (Recording) Peaks

[James Teh]

OSARA supports timed or indefinite peak hold. 


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> On 9 Feb 2015, at 5:01 am, Scott Chesworth via RWP <rwp at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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