I didn’t like the fact that once you swapped the channels over to USB the pre amp gains were all different from their local setting.
You have to understand that the preamp gain setting is something that is tied to each preamp’s physical circuitry. This is why the preamp gain setting will change when you change your source from one input to another on the same channel. Expecting the numbers to always stay the same is like driving two different cars and expecting them both to use the same engine (not the same type of engine but the same physical engine).
When you use USB inputs, you don’t use the preamps at all and your gain level is going to be set by the volume of the source material. If your source material has bad gain structure, it will carry over into the console.
Of course you do have “trim” which gives you some flexibility to adjust the volume of a USB source in the console, but that is different than a preamp gain setting. However if you are recording the multitrack with appropriate gain structure (ie the gain is “correct” prior to the recording “pick point” and you don’t change the overall gain in the DAW/software), when you return those multitracks back to the console over USB you shouldn’t have to adjust the trim at all.
Lee7 3 months, 3 weeks ago.
