If you monitor at a high level all the time, you tend to turn everything way down too much or generally make poor EQing decisions due to ear fatigue and the mix sounds weak as a consequence so only monitor at high levels for short periods of time. I turn the mix up later on in the process to see what frequencies pop out at higher levels. I monitor quite low when I'm producing to avoid ear fatigue and it also means that you mainly hear the direct signal from your monitors rather than the room reflections. When I calibrated my monitors using my HS8s and my old Focusrite Pro 24, I could only get 75dB out of them which is still plenty. Get a C-weighted level meter app for your phone and a pink noise sample peaking at 0dBFS, turn your Scarlett to max volume and your monitors right down, then turn the monitors up until they reach ~85dBSPL on the meters which is actually quite loud(and is the max level you can listen to for a normal working day of 8 hours and also where the ears' frequency response is the most flat).
Im guessing i should turn the speakers down on the back of them and put the scarlet up higher yeah? Is that the way to avoid hiss too (not that i think that matters much in my case but still would like to know) So i turned down the volume in the scarlet control panel windows. I tried to turn up the hardware volume control but it was pretty loud for just touching it. What should control the default volume? The back of speakers are set to default like manual stated to do but even with my scarlet at 0 on the hardware and the software at 100 i could still hear it lightly. What do you turn off when you go to sleep? It said only in thunder storms and long periods but do you flip the switch in the back every time anyway? Turn off the soundcard? I left that on before eh. I would probably use Pro L if that helps. So if i do put one on and raise the output after it +.1 with i guess the master fader to see when i clip still yeah? That way i will know when the limiter is active and not changing the sound of my song either correct? (Because some eq's alter the phase with default settings) So i kinda am used to seeing the light blink to let me know when i need to pay attention to what else i bring / velocity / adsr / timing / before i go to an eq (depends on tune).
I usually work until i clip letting me pick the right samples and synths that can fit as much in without clipping. But i like seeing the clipping light in my daw for one reason. I keep my levels low / am mindful of gain staging my signal path right away.
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