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Originally Posted by Rudy4
As far as watching your levels, if you don't play in a way that produces a uniform signal then simply set your levels to give you at least 3db of room before hitting 0 db when you play at your loudest and get on with the creative process.
As long as you're recording 24 bit audio you'll have no trouble setting your levels in your DAW when editing. I've found that 24 bit recording lets me forget about the need to watch the metering.
Others might have a different view of this, but that's just a practical way of recording without babysitting levels. We have enough to concern ourselves with in the performance without having to sit in the engineer's chair at the same time.
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I agree with this method for setting levels. It allows me to ignore levels while I’m playing / recording. However, I set levels to be a bit more forgiving, making sure my loudest playing is down at least 6dB from full scale. You’re only losing 1 bit of a/d resolution for each 6dB; insignificant in a 24 bit adc recording.