As I'm recording the guitars, I am using DIGICHECK and looking at my ANALOG 1 input level (this is the DI from Countryman Type 85) and shooting for a -4dBfs to -6Bbfs peak on my absolute hardest right hand bashing of strings. I've soldered in just about every high gain pickup you can get from Duncan, Dimarzio, EMG, Suhr, and they all sound diff and play diff and I love them all. mostly all pointy head rock/metal shred stuff, especially Ibanez and USA Jackson/Charvel. ![]() I'm always playing through super high gain stuff and just chugging away. I have never actually listened to what any of my guitars sound like as a bare DI signal. This is something I never, ever would have noticed if I was not dedicating time to learning DI and REAMPING. So here is a long and very interesting story that might help some random person if they happen to stumble onto this post and have a similar issue as it pertains to guitar DI tracking. I have also saved many custom DIGICHECK layouts - LOVE that metering! Starting to see how powerful TOTAL MIX is and why so many people swear by RME. Yes, I am using presets, snapshots, mute and fader groups etc. All of the gain staging must be done going INTO the rme, yes? it seems that totalmix itself does NOT alter the actual signal level of anything going INTO THE DAW, right? If I pump up the fader on my kemper spdif for example, that is only making it come otu dynaudio louder and not making it go into the DAW hotter (or less hot). ![]() Pulling down the fader still sends the signal out of the hardware but stops it from coming uot of the monitors. ![]() I have it doing EXACTLY what I want now and even made a custom MUTE GROUP! I see now that the MUTE totally KILLS that out bus entirely, everywhere. FADER is still weird to me - I am glad I figured it out. Even to the point where I was playing around with playback levels going to each of my Dynaudio monitors. I was initially very confused submix vs free and why the bottom "route label" changed, but on what strip I clicked on but it's starting to make sense now. Yes, for sure I am getting this concept now.
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