Controlling the Amount of Default Attenuation the OT Inflicts on Samples?

[avantronica]

This input attenuation cannot be controlled as mentioned

An older thread, one of many

Gain Pain

Tell me this is wrong … Please ! [Edit, yes, it probably is] The Octatrack takes your decent ‘hot’ signal It drops the level at the inputs by ~12dB It then adds 12dB of gain to the recording to get you back to the original level i’m not sure that sounds like a good plan, can anyone convince me it is ! ? It’s helping me understand why my levels are all over the place with pickup machines, but i can now see it’s the same with flex and tellingly with Thru When you put a decent signal throug…

The other thread - without listenable files btw

Ot abc test

This thread touched on a few areas of interest to me, not least of which the potential to capture things internally, albeit short ideas or very short as i like to use the flex machines ram for the content So i did a little unscientific test, there may be flaws in my approach, but as it has bearing on my likely workflow choices i’ve stuck with it to see if there’s much to be gained from one approach to the other i sourced a 24bit/192 recording snippet freely available online, first thing i foun…