I'm off to clip my mix engine

They say it can not be done.

I think I'll be done in about 3 minutes

See you soon.

:-)

Who said it can't be done?

It kicked my cushion.

I could barely make it crackle... once I turned the place where all the crackling was happening down.

best,
mike

I wrote an explanation on the thread in Techniques.

I was real comfortable with the 64 bit idea... I just mistakenly thought there were a few bottlenecks that really aren't there.

I have always advised that the 64bit engine made many old superstitions pointless... I just didn't realize how far you could go with it.

I pretty much keep my monitor chain at 83dBSPL unless I'm having a jam so I habitually worked at the track level and never thought to turn down the master as a solution for any clipping I mixed up.


all the best,
mike

true story:

My Dad used to just open the circuit breaker to my room.

You know that sound of a record slowing down? I heard that a lot when I was a young-un.

Dad was an electrical engineer... he didn't fool around.


What I did to win him over was to demonstrably listen to classical records even louder than my rock records.

Mike, you just need more power if you really want to clip.

More power - whatever the problem, it's always the answer.™

drewfx1


Mike, you just need more power if you really want to clip.

More power - whatever the problem, it's always the answer.™

When My wife and I raced our tandem bicycle... that's about all I would say... "More power.... more power".

Every now and then I'd yell "hold on... tight!!!"

Could have been :-)

I guess there's a bunch of us with Tandems down here in the sun belt... but I used to lead large group rides so it's certainly possible that we rode together or met at some event.

best regards,
mike

I'm trying to get to Door County Wisconsin for some smooth rolling this summer!!!

:-)

You all in the snow belt have great wide roads and amazingly polite drivers.

mike_mccue


They say it can not be done.

I think I'll be done in about 3 minutes

See you soon.

:-)

Scary ain't it?

What makes it difficult is that plug-in makers have different ideas of what levels are required make their fx work the trickery to best effect, meaning you have to use your ears when applying certain fx.  

Between the tracking and the output we could all go so far up and down our own little range within all that headroom that we'd never ever bump into each other and it seems the very concept of 'gain staging' doesn't actually exist within the digital realm.

Gain staging really then is just a ritual us old farts like to cling to, I justify it by thinking to myself that it all has to come out of the DA converter at some point and it is well to know at which juncture along the chain I've completely wrecked the sound if only for reference, so the imaginary limits imposed by all the whistles, lights, bells and meters do assist I suppose.

I tried to explain to somebody once that a plug-in or combination thereof had been the cause of some fine square topped clipping, I don't think however I managed to successfully explain how I knew, but I just knew that I knew.

(btw cross posting makes it difficult to know whether the thread in the techniques forum or here was the right place to post these musings of mine, but hey we can do what we like without limits this is all digital after all, who needs pre-defined procedures?...)