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If you want to try your hand at synthesising a kick, I've found EKS Pro by Synapse to be pretty handy http://www.synapse-audio.com/ekspro.html - think it costs $39 which is quite reasonable. It's designed purely to make kick drums. A lot of people will layer a real sample for some top end but for ...

Thanks everyone for sharing your knowledge, I appreciate all your input. I can see I have plenty more to learn. You've more than cleared up my questions and given me plenty of food for thought.

Cheers.

Bearing in mind a lot of the technical stuff can become seem occult to the newcomer, my advice is :

The magical headroom is a safety net, not a foundation. Try to keep all your meters out of the red, try to keep everything in the safe zone, and all will be well. Live does have a lot of headroom in ...

Remember that a large proportion of Live's functionality is aimed at performing live. In this situation the live performer doesn't really have time to spend ages gain staging everything that they add to the performance.

They only have to keep an eye on the master channel and not have to worry ...

Be wary of saying "X" dBVU (and other analog scales) is equal to "Y" dBFS. dBVU is a reference level, and in a pro audio setting, -18dBFS is often used as the 0dbVU calibration level (note this is usually done by sound card manufacturers). Another thing to bear in mind is that different areas of ...

4. Plugins should be treated as real world effects and should be properly gain staged at (a suggested) -12dBFS or lower. Is this because some plugins use fixed-point scales?

i find this point quite interesting and it's one i'm seeing quoted a lot yet every test i've done on any of my hardware ...

not quite.

outside of Live, in hardware, with DACs and ADCs and AES receivers/transmitters, your soundcard etc audio is transmitted as PCM which is in a 24 bit 2s-compliment format.

the OP should read Tarekith's guides a little closer, maybe Tarekith can take some time to write a few words.



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Hi CooCooCaCha and thanks for that thorough explanation and also for replying so quickly. All makes sense. I'm finding that there's a lot of fundamentals that need to be fully understood before diving into any of this stuff.

Having come into mixing in the digital world and never having had any ...

I recently logged on to this forum intending to ask some newbie questions to do with gain levels, metering and clipping in Live. I held off as I figured it would be sensible to check out past threads and see what I could find that was relevant.

So this past week I did a crash course thanks to this ...