Dom Mcsweeney
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For owners of the RME UFX III interface: the Maximum Input Level is 21 dBu, and the interface has a +8dB minimum gain.
- From my previous calculation using the Excel, the gain in TotalMix for NDSP was set at +17.0dB.
- In the tool above, it says to set the Input Gain Adjustment at +8.8dB. But this is on top of the minimum gain, right ? So you need to add 8.8 to 8 for a total of 16.8dB in TotalMix, correct ? (TotalMix only allows integer, so the closest is 17dB.) This sounds fine, no clipping.
Following the same logic (if correct), the tool above mentions +21dBu for TONEX, so in TotalMix that would be +29dB of gain ?!? That clips the hell out of the RME input and of course TONEX. Something is weird here.
Anyone knows what the Gain Adjustment should be for Amalgam Audio TONEX captures?
I personally recommend you leave your hi-z input gain on your interface to minimum, or whatever, and then dial in the input gain on the plugins you use instead.
So, for me that would be like ''zero added input gain'' = 12dbu, so then I would add/subtract as necessary in my amp sim App, or amp sim DAW plugin by the value suggested from where ever it says ''add/subtract gain value''.
What you don't want to ever do is boost the input gain too much on the interface itself (eg. go into the red by clipping your interface input).