It sounds like your highs are cranked right up will give s listen on monitors... Can try a parametric eq on it
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It sounds like your highs are cranked right up will give s listen on monitors... Can try a parametric eq on it
Also, I'm sure audacity has an internal gain that happens after the ADC. If you're clipping the ADC, it doesn't necessarily mean the wave will be huge. I'd need to see more of the settings to be sure, but that's what I heard.
I heard the DJM had like some sort of toggle setting as a limiter (to prevent redlining DJs from damaging the sound system), but I thought that was the newer DJMs only.
I've also read that the DJM800 has a lot of head room. There shouldn't be any clipping even if it's in the red.
One channel maybe, but not if you have two channels up that high mate. Just don't go into the red, whether your mixer can "handle it" or not. Better to Record Quiet, Boost Later :)
Agreed. There is a lot of headroom, but if you use it that means is that you'll be outputting louder....say +10dBV. And if your sound card goes nonlinear at -2dBV and clips at 0dBV, you've got problems, especially if the sound card doesn't have a pad on the input or an analog gain control before the ADC.
You actually need to watch the meter for your sound card (if it has one) or be really picky and monitor the signal coming into the sound card.
Believe me, I feel your pain. My 2016 will clip my sound card inputs long before it even comes close to distorting itself. It doesn't have the same kind of metering, but with a channel peaking at what would be 0dB on a normal mixer....the output knob clips the sound card at about 6. Unity is at 8, and it goes to 10.
You can obviously take things too far....but quieter is better when you're recording digital. On my Pro Tools rig, I usually aim for inputs to peak at around -18dB on PT's meters. It's not noisy....it's just got enough headroom to actually work with.
Needing to record loud died when people stopped using tape machines.
Hmm. I don't think my master levels were in the red, but maybe they were. I'll try it again.
I just threw that together in a couple minutes, didn't really work on it.
Channel levels
Its tough to overdrive the channels on an 800. There's a lot of code in there keeping it from happening.
The master, on the other hand.....I'd have to spend some more time with one. It's entirely possible that you could clip the sound card long before you clip the mixer. Like I said, my 2016 can record like garbage long before it distorts on its own.
OP, record a single track twice using the same setup (no mixing, EQing) at full noise and half noise & see if you can notice a difference.