[Rwp] Determining Input (Recording) Peaks

[Scott Chesworth]

Now you're just showing off :P

On 2/8/15, James Teh via RWP <rwp at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
> 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:
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>> Hi Matej,
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>> 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.
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>> 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
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>>> On 2/8/15, Matej Golian via RWP <rwp at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
>>> Sorry, but any suggestions, anyone? :D
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>>> 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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