Topic: hypercards vs cards

[skokiebob]

Many thanks to all, great help! On a somewhat related issue,for a moderately quiet show, do you guys set your volume to the crowd noise around you, which is of course much louder than the music itself at times, do you fiddle with it during the show or lean to the low end and leave it alone. :-\THANKS!!   

[china_rider]

Pick your levels and leave them or you will go mad and probalby ruin some recordings.  Best to fix in post.

[tonyvt]

Pick your levels and leave them or you will go mad and probalby ruin some recordings.  Best to fix in post.

I completely agree with china_rider. Best to set the levels and forget about them.

[Brian Skalinder]

do you guys set your volume to the crowd noise around you, which is of course much louder than the music itself at times, do you fiddle with it during the show or lean to the low end and leave it alone.

When running 24-bit, I most certainly do the latter:  keep levels low and adjust in post if desired (compression on applause, normalization, etc.).  For 16-bit, safe bet is to do the same, though I've had success (and failures) running levels for the music as well.  The risk with running levels for the music is the applause clipping in a nastily audible fashion.  I've found if it's just clapping causing the clipping, many 16-bit ADCs will clip gracefully due to the transient nature of the peaks.  But if there's hooting and hollering causing clipping, or other loud sources that are not as transient as clapping, the clipping gets ugly sounding fast.

[lotusbudds]

Is running low at 24 bit -6dB, -10dB, -14dB?

Thanks