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There’s a great thread going on at the R-E-P Forum at ProSoundWeb.com killing dead, once and for all, the wretched notion that you need to slam as hot of a signal as possible into the A/D converters to “make use of all the bits”…  

Some really cool tangential discussion about all the reasons why it’s so counterproductive with today’s modern digital recordings. Even at 24 bit 44.1k, the noise floor is a complete non-issue.  The biggest problem being available headroom for plug-ins to do their math and the summing buss trying to make sense of everything being slammed so hard. 

I’ve been saying it for years. One of the reasons digital sounds “harsh” to people is that they try to run everything too damn hot!

Read the thread here: Digital Tracking with Low Levels

Spent the weekend at 42nd Street Studios with my bestest pal Marc Loren of Landmark Productions fame and fortune tracking the new Lee’s Day album.

DP5 ran like a champ on Marc’s G5 and we put a bunch of his new toys to good use…

The pair of 414’s way up in the air through his UA 2-610 were particularly god-like on the drums.

Kick – Beta 52 -> Great River MP2NV -> Distressor
Snare Top – 57 -> Great River MP2NV -> Distressor
Snare Bottom – AKG 452 -> Oram 8 Channel
Hat – AKG 452 -> Oram 8 Channel
Toms – Audix D2 -> Oram 8 Channel -> DBX 160X
Floor – KSM-32 -> Oram 8 Channel -> DBX 160X
Overheads – AKG 452’s -> Oram 8 Channel -> DBX 162

Bass – Avalon 737 DI

Guitar – PODxt

We loaded in Friday night and started around 9ish. Tracked two songs and came back Sat. AM and tracked EIGHT.