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<blockquote data-quote="Antoon van den Oetelaar" data-source="post: 75320" data-attributes="member: 3005">Re: Meters and clippingThis has always been the normal way for analog consoles. This makes it possible that once in a while a overload led lits doesn&#039;t hurt/add distortion, so you don&#039;t have to adjust really. If it stays on longer than you have to adjust. It also had to do with attack times of the led, like a compressor, small peaks can get through without being noticed, by lowering the level it will be noticed earlier. In the past I have seen consoles with such a bad reaction to peaks, that I could hear the distortion before the led lit. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f622.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cry:" title="Crying&nbsp; &nbsp; :cry:"&nbsp; data-smilie="15"data-shortname=":cry:" /> When you&#039;re always 3 dB from absoluut maximum, your gain structure isn&#039;t good for live mixing, theirs also no need for it. The S/N is far better than almost any analog setup, including rackmounted compressors, gates and effect processors.As mentioned before it&#039;s common habbit to mix around -18dBFS on digital consoles, that&#039;s why the color of the bars change to orange at that point. It&#039;s just the analog 0dB.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Antoon van den Oetelaar, post: 75320, member: 3005"] Re: Meters and clipping This has always been the normal way for analog consoles. This makes it possible that once in a while a overload led lits doesn't hurt/add distortion, so you don't have to adjust really. If it stays on longer than you have to adjust. It also had to do with attack times of the led, like a compressor, small peaks can get through without being noticed, by lowering the level it will be noticed earlier. In the past I have seen consoles with such a bad reaction to peaks, that I could hear the distortion before the led lit. :cry: When you're always 3 dB from absoluut maximum, your gain structure isn't good for live mixing, theirs also no need for it. The S/N is far better than almost any analog setup, including rackmounted compressors, gates and effect processors. As mentioned before it's common habbit to mix around -18dBFS on digital consoles, that's why the color of the bars change to orange at that point. It's just the analog 0dB. [/QUOTE]

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