Monitoring levels

2014-05-07 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
I'm 100% perfectly aware that I can monitor the level of an individual track by interacting with it, then finding the meter, and then, I can keep hitting vo+F3 to read what's under the Voiceover cursor. what however I'm looking for, is something slightly more robust. Is there a way, and if

Re: Monitoring levels

2014-05-07 Thread Scott Chesworth
Beyond using a hotspot, there's not a way that I'm aware of. Assuming your hardware doesn't have a horribly high noise floor or anything, then your best bet is probably just to air on the side of caution and go in at a lower gain level whenever it's a particularly dynamic part and raise the level

Re: Monitoring levels

2014-05-07 Thread John André Lium-Netland
Hi Chris, This might be what you are looking for, it will only alert you by voice when you clip or at a given level. http://www.katsurashareware.com/pgs/prolevel.html Best, John André On 07 May 2014, at 12:54, Christopher-Mark Gilland clgillan...@gmail.com wrote: I'm 100% perfectly aware

Re: Monitoring levels

2014-05-07 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
AM Subject: Re: Monitoring levels Beyond using a hotspot, there's not a way that I'm aware of. Assuming your hardware doesn't have a horribly high noise floor or anything, then your best bet is probably just to air on the side of caution and go in at a lower gain level whenever it's

Re: Monitoring levels

2014-05-07 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
: Monitoring levels Hi Chris, This might be what you are looking for, it will only alert you by voice when you clip or at a given level. http://www.katsurashareware.com/pgs/prolevel.html Best, John André On 07 May 2014, at 12:54, Christopher-Mark Gilland clgillan...@gmail.com

Re: Monitoring levels

2014-05-07 Thread Slau Halatyn
Chris, If you're in danger of clipping, you're recording way too hot. With something like a vocal, your final peak should be -9 to -6 dB full scale. That means your average level should be in the range of -18 to -12 dB. That's what headroom is for. You're recording with 24 bits which give you

Re: Monitoring levels

2014-05-07 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
know. Chris. - Original Message - From: Slau Halatyn To: ptaccess@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2014 8:35 AM Subject: Re: Monitoring levels Chris, If you're in danger of clipping, you're recording way too hot. With something like a vocal, your final peak

Re: Monitoring levels

2014-05-07 Thread Chris Smart
Not to mention, most gear operates most linearly at about -12dBFS. In addition to what he said, if things are too quiet, turn up your monitors. At 08:35 AM 5/7/2014, you wrote: Chris, If you're in danger of clipping, you're recording way too hot. With something like a vocal, your final peak

Re: Monitoring levels

2014-05-07 Thread Chris Smart
. - Original Message - From: mailto:slauhala...@gmail.comSlau Halatyn To: mailto:ptaccess@googlegroups.comptaccess@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2014 8:35 AM Subject: Re: Monitoring levels Chris, If you're in danger of clipping, you're recording way too hot. With something like

Re: Monitoring levels

2014-05-07 Thread Slau Halatyn
suggestions, or think you may know what is going on, let me know. Chris. - Original Message - From: Slau Halatyn To: ptaccess@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2014 8:35 AM Subject: Re: Monitoring levels Chris, If you're in danger of clipping, you're recording way

Re: Monitoring levels

2014-05-07 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
: Monitoring levels You have to figure out a way to keep VoiceOver and Pro Tools output separate. Your just setting yourself up for a difficult time by trying to run things the way you have them set up. Also, crank your vocal track up to the max on the fader. As you know, this has no effect

Re: Monitoring levels

2014-05-07 Thread Slau Halatyn
, or is there actually a better way? Chris. - Original Message - From: Slau Halatyn To: ptaccess@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2014 10:38 AM Subject: Re: Monitoring levels You have to figure out a way to keep VoiceOver and Pro Tools output separate. Your just setting

Re: Monitoring levels

2014-05-07 Thread Ricky Prevatte
To: mailto:ptaccess@googlegroups.comptaccess@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2014 8:35 AM Subject: Re: Monitoring levels Chris, If you're in danger of clipping, you're recording way too hot. With something like a vocal, your final peak should be -9 to -6 dB full scale

Re: Monitoring levels

2014-05-07 Thread Chris Smart
, if you have any suggestions, or think you may know what is going on, let me know. Chris. - Original Message - From: mailto:slauhala...@gmail.comSlau Halatyn To: mailto:ptaccess@googlegroups.comptaccess@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2014 8:35 AM Subject: Re: Monitoring

Re: Monitoring levels

2014-05-07 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
:14 PM Subject: Re: Monitoring levels Chris, Your final mixes should follow the same principle. Ultimately, you need to create a final master where you bump up your levels, add final EQ and compression, in other words, mastering. That's beyond the scope of an email list. I'm simply

Re: Monitoring levels

2014-05-07 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
To: ptaccess@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2014 4:27 PM Subject: Re: Monitoring levels Chris what are you using? What kind of mixer and that sort of thing what makes up your daw? Ricky Prevatte LMBT1154 On May 7, 2014, at 10:32 AM, Chris Smart csma...@cogeco.ca wrote: Granted, I'm