Very little headroom

[JuanSOLO]

Internal gain stage recommendations

In any digital gear I usually leave around 15% headroom. So far the OT runs at max 110 per track. Seems to work nice enough although I’ve not maxed all tracks and the master to see the result… As for matching kit, hmmmm, tough one really as fx, samples, mod envelopes etc are always going to affect your volume anyway. You could get an idea of what’s a decent match by using an external program to match dB levels, personally I’d just use my ears.

Headroom, gain staging, stereo space and other headaches

Hi guys, I have an issue with my OT that is not so easy to describe as I’m not a professional sound engineer. I usually start producing with kick and bass, filter and add compression on each track to give it more thump. At that point it seems that the signal coming out of each track is already very “hot”, like there’s no headroom left. When I add other elements they don’t seem to mix well, I lose dynamics. An incremental increase of even a few values of a track’s level or effects can cause dis…