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Gain Staging - Episode 1

Recording & Mixing

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The Problem With Analog Tape

In a regular 16-bit or 24-bit wave file, the highest possible level is 0 dBFS. If you try to push the level beyond that, again, you'll get clipping. Clipping causes distortion, really unpleasant distortion. At the other end of the scale, there's noise. Everything we use in audio generates a certain amount of random noise which mostly sounds like a hiss. But that's a different problem, and I would always refer to it as hum rather than just a type of noise.

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