The Mastering Show #39 - Digital Gain Staging: what’s the point ?
The Mastering Show · The Mastering Show Podcast
October 3, 201747m 34s
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Show Notes
Gain staging used to be a crucial consideration for analogue recording and mixing - but you’ll hear plenty of people saying it doesn’t really matter, in a modern digital audio workstation. And they have a (floating) point.
But you’ll also hear lots of other people, me included, saying it IS important to understand what gain staging is and how it works, even in a digital environment.
So who’s right ? In this show we dig into the details, and discuss:
* How much peak headroom should you leave before mastering ?
* What IS gain staging, anyway ?
* Why do people say it doesn’t matter in digital ? Or:
* What’s the point of floating point ?
* How does it work ?
* When digital gain staging does matter
Full show notes on the website:
http://themasteringshow.com/episode-39
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