Guys,
I do understand that this may be more a mixing question than it is a PT
question in and of itself. Therefore, I'm going to be brief.
The story goes, that I have a song which I need to record my lead vocals
on
the top of. The music has already been done as a Sound Choice karaoke
soundtrack which I have ripped from CD into lossless wave format.
Effectively, I need to import this wave file on a stereo audio track in
PT
11. That's not the issue though; I definitely know how to do that. The
problem is, as most of you know, any production material which is in
final
release mainstream finalization is most likely going to already be mixed,
and more likely still, mastered. This means that they're going to ride
their
fader as close to 0DB as they can. The issue is, by default, in PT, the
meter is set to show my input level, which is generally exactly what I'd
want. In this case however, I need to find some way before doing anything
with my master fader that I can get that karaoke track down to about
a -14
to -12 DB level. If I run my fader on the track from the default of 0DB
downward to a negative value, say, -4DB we'll just say, that isn't going
to
effect the meter readout right to the right of that fader since we're
dealing with the input level, not the output. Am I understanding
correctly?
In other words, regardless where I move that volume slider, the meter
isn't
going to change read a lower or higher value than before.
If this is the case, and I'm correct, then what's the best technique for
dealing with this? I just don't want all that extra gain in there on top
of
the vocal and all else. If I leave this volume where it is, no doubt in
the
masterring process when I start making my final mix, I'm gonna peek my
master fader's meter bigtime which is totally undesirable!
Can you all recommend anything? How would be the best way to deal with
this?
Should I configure PT to show the meters as output instead of input? If
so,
how do I do it? If not, what would be advised?
Thanks.
Rosco.
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