so my question does but doesn't have to do with this thread.
Maybe I am misunderstanding the terms but when I think of gain, i think adding.
When I think trim, i think cutting back.
When I think fader, I think cutting back or lowering too.
you can "add" gain via the knobs correct??
Most posts talk about the pre fader and/or trim.
Common sense tells me yes but the terms are throwing me.
Thanks
I find the term "trim" a bit of a problem too. It's all about controlling input. If you're in a studio, you control the input from a microphone to the mixer with the trim control. Then you control the input to the recorder with the fader. If you've set your trim correctly, you never have to worry about having distorted sound from the microphone to the fader. But the level of the fader has to be watched to not overload the input to the recorder.
Tapers generally record from a microphone straight into a recorder without a mixer. So we want the input control to directly affect the sound from a microphone to an individual recorded track. In film audio lingo, this track is called an ISO.
So when Paul says you can directly control the trim of an ISO with the fader knob by setting that up in Custom mode, I take it on faith that he means we can set the record level from the microphone directly to the tracks with the knobs.
Not sure if this is any clearer.