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Topic: UFX mk1, Total Mix, Mixer Settings 'Main Out' Gain being -3.0 dB?

What would it mean, by -3.0 dB on 'Gain' section under Main Out?


would this be a safety limit line...?



May I change it to 0 dB for the purest setting...?



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2 Reply by ramses (edited by ramses 2022-08-12 05:15:36)

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Re: UFX mk1, Total Mix, Mixer Settings 'Main Out' Gain being -3.0 dB?

> would this be a safety limit line...?
> May I change it to 0 dB for the purest setting...?

For what use case? Music production, listening to music, mixing, mastering?
What do you mean with pure, in what way? It depends on the context / use case.

Without knowing in what context or for what purpose you ask this, it's difficult to find a good answer.

When mastering, I try to stay under 0dB because of the negative side effects of loudness war.
It's said, that some consumer electronics may not be able to perform a good D/A conversion if the music material is very close to or at 0dB.
Two or three consecutive signals at or very close to 0dB result into an audio signal over 0dB, which causes distortion (->overs).
Therefore, DIGIcheck has an overs detection.

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3 Reply by RMEfanboy (edited by RMEfanboy 2022-08-19 14:42:51)

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Re: UFX mk1, Total Mix, Mixer Settings 'Main Out' Gain being -3.0 dB?

ramses wrote:

> would this be a safety limit line...?
> May I change it to 0 dB for the purest setting...?

For what use case? Music production, listening to music, mixing, mastering?
What do you mean with pure, in what way? It depends on the context / use case.

Without knowing in what context or for what purpose you ask this, it's difficult to find a good answer.

When mastering, I try to stay under 0dB because of the negative side effects of loudness war.
It's said, that some consumer electronics may not be able to perform a good D/A conversion if the music material is very close to or at 0dB.
Two or three consecutive signals at or very close to 0dB result into an audio signal over 0dB, which causes distortion (->overs).
Therefore, DIGIcheck has an overs detection.

Oh! for mastering!

So I can hear the distortion and how much it gets clipped! smile

There I meant thereby, truest(?) setting...?

thanks!