into the red with software mixers.

[Jay Pace]

When you mixdown or record it will become apparent.

You can run signals red off your software mixer, and they might sound ok - but when you record them back they will sound shit.

Make sure your master fader is unclipped on your software mixer. You can clip an analog mixer happily, but do it on a digital signal and it sounds horrible.

[Radic]

When you mixdown or record it will become apparent.

You can run signals red off your software mixer, and they might sound ok - but when you record them back they will sound shit.

Make sure your master fader is unclipped on your software mixer. You can clip an analog mixer happily, but do it on a digital signal and it sounds horrible.

yeah i never let the master fader clip over unity but some of the other channels ive had bouncin a few db's over unity and i never noticed any harm at all. What's happenin to the signal if u breach unity with software? Is there some kind of brickwall that kicks in? I've pushed me levels up at around 7db + and still can't hear no clipping distortion. And yeah like i said b4 i noticed it looks a lot better on the spectral analyser and the track has more punch without me having to hit the overall track harder with a compressor/limiter.

Also i noticed if track one is bouncin at around +3db and i route that to track 2 and adjust the fader to show unity, there's more punch on the master fader than if i just had track 1 bouncin at unity and routed track 1 straight to the master fader.