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Very nice recordings! Having never used a 32 bit recorder I have a question. When you are setting levels in 16 or 24 bits you move the according to the average sound level you're expecting; if you record close a loud source you begin with a low setting or if you are further back or the source is quiet you start higher and then fine adjust according to what to hear. In 32 bit you don't have to set levels; but, is there an "average" level around which a certain sound will be recorded? To be more clear, let's presume we are recording a speaking voice at 6 feet distance or, ar the same distance, a loud saxophone quartet. Will I end up with a very very low recorded signal in the first case and with a "almost all clipped" wave in the second case or there is a rough adjustment I can make before? I understand that we can fix everything in post; my question is just about the average loudness the recorded is set to hear when in 32 bits. Thanks
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The short answer is that it doesn't matter. All is fully recoverable in post, even if you're average level is -50 dB or +50 dB.
Longer answer:
To be clear, this is only possible with multiple auto ranging ADCs feeding a 32-bit float recording system such as found in the newest Zoom M and F-series, Sound Devices MixPre-II, new Tascam X series, and Stagetec consoles and converters.
In practice, the gain on the F6 is fixed, but the final recorded level written to the file is adjustable. Everything is done post-ADC in the digital domain.
What I do is to set the trim pots to +20 dB for my most sensitive mics, and +30 or +40 for less sensitive mics. This is where I find I need to do less level adjustment in post to normalize. I sometimes have a little (or a lot) beyond 0 dBFS, but I don't care because it's all recoverable. But I don't need to do any of that; it's just for convenience.
So don't even worry about your recorded level. The only thing you need to care about is not overloading the input stage, but you're only going to do that recording very loud music with very sensitive (hot output) mics. WiFiJeff on this forum has used his F6 with Josephson C617s without issue, and those are just about the most sensitive mics out there.