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Are you talking about software gain or hardware gain? My studio monitors have a slight noise floor at 0db and if i listen at night i cant have it that loud, so the hiss can become noticable unless i turn the gain knob on the speakers down. Will this impede sound quality?

... How does this work? If Potentiometers are Passive, and have no active electronics to Amplify a signal, what happens Past the 75% or 50% points. These being variable resistors that can only Cut, are "used" in a deceptive but practical way. If the top half of a fader is Linear and marked + & - say 12dB, we call that "having 12dB in hand". But that +12dB is already IN the signal, pre-fader. The fader being pulled down to the 75% point, is Cutting the signal by 12dB. When the fader is pushed to 100% (and 100mm in this case), the valve is opened all the way and the extra 12dB of metaphorical water pressure is alloed to flow. But it isnt Adding 12dB of additional Amplification. And therefore no additional noise. Whatever's there is already there. With the "Trim" knobs, its the same just at 50% and with a convenient detent to help us find Unity (also on the Gain knobs of Analog Parametric EQs BTW) So to your Digital Trims. Much of the digital audio world are 'emulations, simulations, virtual versions' of thier Analog counterparts. With Analog Trim knobs being Calibrated with say +or- 12dB, the digital trims do the same....but differently. In the Analog realm, the Gain has to come from somewhere...electronically. In the digital realm... It's just math.

​@themixingprocess Ahhh... I can try. Again I'll refer to an Analog Trim (as I understand it, more on that later) As I described in the last post, to my understanding: Gain is Active. Trim is Passive. The Active electronics can Amplify a signal, but also introduce Noise. A Passive circuit, basically, doesn't amplify anything and as a result doesn't add noise (or at least a negligible amount). So in practice, if you imagine a channel strip on a console, the first knob at the top is Gain, and the last thing at the bottom is a Fader which is Passive. That passive Fader is really a Variable Resistor, just like all of the Potentiometers sprinkled around the board. Again, if you imagine the Gain increasing water pressure like a water pump, then you can imagine all of the Potentiometers and Faders as Valves that, only when opened, allow that water pressure to flow through whatever pipes (busses) they're connected to. If all the valves are closed, the water (signal) is going nowhere. That's signal-flow 101 as I've understood for decades. Now a tricky point is one of ergonomics really. That Fader at the bottom is designed and "Calibrated" in such a way as to provide far more use than a simple linear Potentiometer. Firstly, unlike my Vintage consoles which have 60mm true linear faders simply marked 0-10 (not in any dB scale), modern faders: - are 100mm standard - follow a "Audio Taper" which basically means they are Linear in the top half and Logarithmic in the bottom half. Providing 50mm of higher resolution tactile control in the top half, and the ability to drastically cut the signal to infinity in the 50mm below that. (And to your question...) - as a standard, modern faders And (Potentiometer used for volume levels) are typically "Calibrated" so that "Unity Gain" is at 75% travel to the end, not at the fully open point. - Potentiometers labeled as "Trim" often times have a Detent at their 50% point and are "Calibrated" so that "Unity Gain" is in the middle. ...

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i'm still not sure what you mean by trim. I'm using a sound craft expression 2 and there is nothing on the board that says trim unless you mean my fader.

Hmmm... Good explanation, but let me add: The distinction between Analog Gain & Digital Trim is misleading. In a fully Analog system, Gain & Trim function much as described here. Gain can Add Amplification to a signal to Increse beyond the input. Trim can only Reduce signal level from input to output. The old analogy is to think about audio signal as water pressure: Adding Gain is like adding a water pump in-line that can Increse water pressure (signal level) by adding Amplification. However this has has additional implications, such as also adding more Noise to the signal from the amplifier itself. As well as additional THD (distortion) and altered frequency response, as amplifiers are non-linear devices. Using a Trim to reduce signal level, is like turning down a Valve to reduce water pressure. The valve (Trim) can be Fully Open allowing everything at the input to pass through to the output, theorhetically 'un-altered'. Or can be dialed back to gradually Reduce water pressure from the input to what's desired at the output, being sent on to the next destination. Because there's no Active electronics in the process, there's also very minimal added artifacts to the signal. It's the same as the input, just less. (All of that said, we often Deliberately ADD Amplification stages to a signal specifically TO add that circuits Non-linearity to the signal, because we find those artifacts to be desirable. Slightly overdriving a signal through a Microphone Preamp, in order to ADD THD is pretty common. And many Preamps have a Gain knob in the input section AND a Trim knob at the output, in order to Use the Gain as additional 'seasoning' and then cleanly reduce any additional signal level back down to whatever is needed beyond that process. )

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how do u adjust that recording w an android phone? thanks

Make up and Output gain is not the same...

As a "HiFi neophyte" I found your explanation very helpful; thank you. If increasing gain enhances "sound quality resolution", under what circumstances would increased gain have a negative result? Inferior speakers/headphones perhaps?

How does panning change if the musicians are set up in the round for live sound?

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Appreciate this information. I agree with you. I've been fighting this for a while being self taught and I just recently came to this conclusion

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Great video question do you mess with the pre amp gain

Doesn't make sense still. I mean if its a digital signal coming from a computer that's too hot (let's say), then the gain setting at low will do the trick. What's a better way to explain use case? This use case scenario is not legit.

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1:38 is where he starts talking about it

Putting Tom two in the middle doesn’t feel good. Especially because As a drummer your Tom is on the right hand side of your right leg. And farthest away from your face

Thumbs up! How about vocal recording. Should i record vocals in pre fader metering with all my faders at unity gain? Thanks

wow, in my head it was the other way around, happy I made an effort to find out.

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Thank you very much, after hours of searching why and how exactly it affects the sound quality, I finally found the answer here

Really informative, so many people miss this concept completely! Thanks so much for the great tutorial!

Great video very helpful. Thank you bro. Subscribed

Interesting, I always mix with the mindset of keeping faders at 0 for the bulk of the process. Never thought of it as a methodology or principle or anything. It was just easier for me to keep everything controlled between the input and the panner/fader section and then just do small adjustments with the faders.

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Amazing teacher !

Hi what is the site for 7 mixing steps

I got my song to -12 lufs but when i play the file and compare it to songs on spotify the file is significantly quieter. what should i do?

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Vividly explained. Bless up man🎉

Great explanation. One question I havent heard explained by anybody is if it's possible to have different effects on each channel, as yo can in a DAW. I'd be very grateful if you could answer that.

Ok so at church I always set gain correctly and the vocalists at 0 on the fader but one of my vocalists is too loud so according to this video I should just turn the vocalist group down, for her fader to be in the high fader resolution area but then I would have to turn up all the other vocalists on their faders so they don’t sound quiet either. But then once they are up they are still to quiet because the lead vocalist is just too loud. I’ve tried setting compression but I noticed she was clipping due to being over compressed so I made the compression as soft as possible so she doesn’t clip, but at that point she’s really not even being compressed, so in the end she is still too loud. Do you have any tips or suggestions for this?

nitpick time... 3:28 a gift is always free ;) Thanks for uploading, quite helpful explanation.

Hello you Can make a tutorial on Reaper the mixing vocal rap please 🎉

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Then here I am 16 and doing the mixing for my church, all my experience is on an analog mixer

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thank you, I think it would be useful if the video could be available to save on a youtube playlists

Love the way you explain things. Really clear, and helpful!

But what about gain staging? At what level do you set your drum/guitars/bass/vocal tracks before applying eq and compression? Some people like to normalize their tracks to -6, -10 or -12 dbFS.

in the future i would get rid of the intro get str8 to the point

Thank you. That's very clear!

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