Topic: DI guitar levels and boosting them afterwards for amp sims
I'm capturing my electric guitar DI with a Neve RNDI into IN 1 of my FF400 and into Cubase.
I always have DIGICHECK up and I'm grabbing my DI anywhere between -21dbfs and -7dbfs depending on how hard I hit.
The recorded DI is crystal clear, no noise, sounds great, but "low" since we are so used to blasting our ears with HOT AS HELL SIGNALS.
With this DI signal in the DAW and then feeding any given amp sim, i can boost it with CLIP GAIN, with PRE-GAIN or I can raise the input of the VST amp sim.
My question is if it makes more sense to just grab a hotter DI signal from the get go, or just keep doing what I am doing and use digital trims afterwards to raise the captured DI by 8db or 10dB to feed a hotter signal into the amp sim to really get the gain going?