ProChannel "level LED" question

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2011/03/24 21:51:20 (permalink)

ProChannel "level LED" question


Okay, I feel dumb asking this, but does anyone else struggle with levels when using ProChannel?  I've been slowly switching some 8.5.3/Sonitus projects to X1/ProChannel, and noticed that the ProChannel output LEDs for compressor and/or EQ are almost always yellow/blinking red.  I end up fiddling with the compressor's input and make-up gain, the track gain, etc, until the lights are mostly green.  Afterwards, the track is usually drastically quieter than before, and I end up cranking the channel's fader.  
Am I doing something fundamentally wrong?  My audio files aren't that loud, aren't clipping. 

When I was working with Sonitus and didn't have an "LED", was it clipping internally and I just didn't notice?    

Excuse my ignorance if I'm asking something very basic

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    BretB
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    Re:ProChannel "level LED" question 2011/03/24 22:05:30 (permalink)
    Been wondering the very same.  Looking forward to answers on this.

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    Re:ProChannel "level LED" question 2011/03/24 22:07:31 (permalink)
    Ignore the lights. Use your ears.   I am always in the yellow with those.

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    Re:ProChannel "level LED" question 2011/03/24 22:27:21 (permalink)
    Middleman


    Ignore the lights. Use your ears.   I am always in the yellow with those.

    Thank you!!  I didn't hear anything offensive when it was yellow, but thought maybe I'm just getting old 

      
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    Re:ProChannel "level LED" question 2011/03/24 22:37:39 (permalink)
    Try this. Ratio set to 4. Turn the input up until the meter shows -4 db. Now turn the output up +4db. Now turn the Comp off then on. Should be louder with it on and of course more 'compressed' by about 4db. Shouldn't be qiuter. Adjust attack and release to taste.

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