Gain Staging Secrets Every Great Audio Engineer Understands!
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Published 2021-07-01
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0:00 - Introduction
0:21 - What Is Gain Staging?
0:41 - What is Good Gain Staging?
1:01 - Clipping, Distortion, & Headroom
2:17 - Signal-To-Noise Ratio & Dynamic Range
4:14 - Setting Levels (VU Meters vs Full Scale Meters)
5:58 - How To Control Gain Structure
8:02 - Gain Staging: Setting Up A Mix
8:54 - Question: What is your gain staging process?
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All Comments (21)
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Don't you love when you've been running audio systems for 40 plus years and within 5 minutes a 20 year old kid has already started to teach you something.
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Teaching is a gift! No matter what you do in life, use your gift kid! One thing that’s hard for us older guy’s to wrap our heads around is the amount of people that are into audio these days. It used to be a secret society but not anymore. Plus, Re- teaching the fundamentals is …. Fundamental.
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As an industry veteran of 45 years, I feel like you glossed over the importance of setting the gain of the pre-amp correctly. The goal of a pre-amp is to take signals that are microvolts (mics and DIs) and boost them up to line level. Every source requires special attention. A vocal mic typically needs more gain than a kick drum mic. Once you've mastered pre-amp gain, everything else downstream operates at line level. For me, the pre-amp is THE most important element of gain staging.
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I just completed a 2 year audio production university program. This channel is still ahead of many professional information sources.
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I have watched literally every video on youtube regarding tutorials on mixong and mastering etc and I can say with full confidence that this chap is by far the best mixing and mastering teacher that I have ever come across - so happy to have found this channel today - thank you so much for the superb content!
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Nice and simple instructions, good job. As a retired advanced audio instructor in southern California, it's nice to see this still being taught. DAW's have made recording easier, but the lessons of tape still apply.
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This video finally answered "stupid questions" I've had for years, such as "I want playback to be louder - do I turn up the volume on the audio interface, the computer, the guitar, the DAW faders...?" I think people are too embarrassed to admit that they don't know how to properly set up everything before they even hit record, and you even gave us suggested % levels to work with. Thank you so much!!
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Can’t compliment you enough. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and presence to help us all with our audio processing. Thanks again
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1000 years later, people still talking about gain staging. great!
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I just watched three of his videos. This guy comes straight to the point. No nonsense. That’s what budding engineers like myself like to watch. Great work bro. Subscribed to your channel
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Absolutely agree.... I bring all channels down to -12 to start and adjust each channel accordingly to give me about -3 to -5 headroom. I leave master bus alone or sometimes just add a limiter to get to 0 but honestly I turn the my speakers of headphones up to hear.... but the truth is in my opinion mixing low is great for preserving your ears and if you hear issues low it will be more pronounced when you turn up the volume.
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I love sound design. I love learning about it even more. Thank you for this channel. Never ever stop educating us. Bad sound makes me sick literally. You are the doc l have always needed.🙌🏾🙌🏾
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I’ve been watching videos on “gain staging” lately, and this is by far the most fundamentally sound explanation. Thanks.
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A light went on in my head when you said "combined noise floor". Very helpful when considering multiple devices/instruments.
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Clear, plain, and very practical. Well done!
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This is the best description of gain staging I’ve ever seen! You rock!
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Really amazing video. I have been watching a lot of videos on this stuff lately and this was one of the most in depth and concise ones I have found. Plus the way you explained things just cleared so much confusion up for me, I feel like I have a much stronger understanding of things now. Fantastic work, thank you.
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Excellent video! I've been dabbling in audio engineering for about 20 years now, and everything you said is pretty much what I do.
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This was useful for me. I started out in the analog world. I’ve been cranking my tracks way too high for a DAW. Thanks.
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Very well explained basic concepts. It’s sometimes helpful to go back to basics. And you obviously understand very well what you are teaching, unlike other channels. Bravo!
