How do you like to track: bit depth, clock, etc.? Sweetspot?
Aug 18, 2024 12:59:37 GMT -6
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Post by bgrotto on Aug 18, 2024 12:59:37 GMT -6
96k, 24bit.
96 because editing sounds better in terms of time stretching and pitch shifting.
24 bit because it's plenty for capture, considering hardware doesn't yet exist to my knowledge that even makes use of THOSE bits. And once ITB, processing is done at a higher resolution anyhow, so I don't really see a need to make my files ~30% bigger. (happy to be proven wrong, though, if dan or someone wants to school me)
Clock internally except when printing live to 2 mixes thru my RND MBC. Then it's word clock from the MBC driving my PT rig.
I haven't thought about peak levels in over a decade. It just doesn't matter. I'm usually eye balling a VU meter for kick to land at -7, and then I build everything around that. If you open a basics session I tracked, faders in PT usually live at unity gain and you'll hear the balance I thought was best in that moment.
I don't really want to be mixing with all my channel faders in funky positions because my levels were out of whack with my ultimate volume goals. If the faders are too low, it makes automating and doing fine adjustments a hassle (without switching to Trim mode). If the faders need a bunch of pushing, it upsets something in the OCD part of my brain (for some dumb reason I hate pushing faders above unity).
96 because editing sounds better in terms of time stretching and pitch shifting.
24 bit because it's plenty for capture, considering hardware doesn't yet exist to my knowledge that even makes use of THOSE bits. And once ITB, processing is done at a higher resolution anyhow, so I don't really see a need to make my files ~30% bigger. (happy to be proven wrong, though, if dan or someone wants to school me)
Clock internally except when printing live to 2 mixes thru my RND MBC. Then it's word clock from the MBC driving my PT rig.
I haven't thought about peak levels in over a decade. It just doesn't matter. I'm usually eye balling a VU meter for kick to land at -7, and then I build everything around that. If you open a basics session I tracked, faders in PT usually live at unity gain and you'll hear the balance I thought was best in that moment.
I don't really want to be mixing with all my channel faders in funky positions because my levels were out of whack with my ultimate volume goals. If the faders are too low, it makes automating and doing fine adjustments a hassle (without switching to Trim mode). If the faders need a bunch of pushing, it upsets something in the OCD part of my brain (for some dumb reason I hate pushing faders above unity).
