Gain Staging In Your DAW

Gain Staging In Your DAW

This is a little known tip the pros know and is often over looked by music makers in their DAW. Most people, myself included at one point , are mixing down their tracks at levels that are too hot.

Gain Staging is about setting gain levels, not listening levels.
If you know how a trim knob works on a DJ mixer, then you already get it. Here’s a post about how to do the same in your DAW.

Yes this is needed in the digital realm, Nicky Howard from The Fat Mastering provides additional input.
Check it out.

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Can’t count how many projects I have seen where the signal going into the mixer is way too hot and has no room already.

Yep, tho I suspect the serious minded will take action.