Re: volume question

[Bernhard Wagner LD <loopdelightml-NDI3MDE=-@bernhardwagner.net>]

Michael

I'd recommend to use the hottest possible levels starting from the  
source (with or without distorting, depending on your taste).

The reason is: the "pure information" comes from the source (i.e.  
guitar). If you turn down the volume at the source and pump it up at  
the end or somewhere underway, these intermediate amplifiers have to  
augment information that isn't there. It's as if you take a 10 MPixel  
camera and configure it to shoot a picture at 1 MPixel and then use  
Photoshop to blow it up to 10M. Photoshop will introduce a lot of  
"noise" into the picture when blowing it up, because it has to  
"pretend" information that wasn't given from the start.

I'd been wondering why my sound was rather hissy until I figured out  
that I hadn't been using enough of the input headroom of the EDP but  
had increased the output level instead.

Bernhard

On 22.03.2007, at 19:52, Nemoguitt@aol.com wrote:

> is there a "rule" regarding volume settings, i.e. what should be  
> the hottest?