What is the correct way to establish a preamp gain setting? My
current understanding is to always set it as high as possible without
clipping to maximize dynamic range. Is this correct? Of couse it's
difficult to deal with digital overs in post recording editing, and
from everything I have read, you have to test your recorders level
indicators to see how they actually work to see where clipping is
actually occuring - given that they don't all necessarily represent
the output of the digitizer, but sometimes a value derived from the
amplifier.
Am I right in also concluding that the perceived noise generated by
the microphone is unaffected by gain setting of the preamp (given
that input sections are typically much much quieter than mics) such
that if the final recording were later amplitude normalized, the
quality of the recording is the same?
Brian Bystrek
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