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Gain staging

Gain staging - Pro Tools Tutorial

From the course: Music Production Secrets: Larry Crane on Recording

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Gain staging

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Here at Jackpot Recording Studio, I find myself mixing a lot of tracks that have been recorded by other people. When I'm working on a song and I'm having a problem with a certain track in the song, I'll actually find out a lot of times that it's due to a gain structure issue. Now, it's really easy to have gain structure problems and not know it. Think about it. You've got a microphone going, it's running through a preamp. You turn the preamp up. You might turn the preamp up so much that it's distorting, you know. Maybe even the red light's coming on. If you're not paying attention, you might not notice this. Because, say what if you have a compressor going downstream? Pre-amp feeds compressor. Compressor is attenuated. Now we're sending a nice safe level into Pro Tools or onto a tape deck. We're not seeing any red lights coming on, on the, on the tape deck. We're not seeing any clip indicators in Pro Tools. We don't know visually that it's distorting. But oh, it, it is. Some pre-amps,…

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