digital trim

[garrett21allen]

doe's anyone use the the tracking level and digital trim.
if so can you explain why you use it and and if thay help you to do what you set out to do.
just would like to know if and how everyone was using there's.

joe allen

[Crash]

Joe, I have used the digital trim quite a bit. Mostly to get stereo tracks to even out so my stereo faders are not all out whack, of course this is on stuff recorded by someone other than me.... It is also useful to get overly hot tracks tamed down so the fader can be used in a more useable range. I have never needed to use tracking level...

[JamesH]

I use digital trim a lot. It' comes in very handy once you've automated your tracks and you want change the volume to pull something down or maybe bring up a vocal. I'm very glad that the digital trim is on the board.

James

[garrett21allen]

crash thanks for the fast reply. so you never use tracking level.

james thank for your replay so you to use digital trim a lot do you ever
use tracking level.

thank you both for the reply I just wanted to find out if most people use the tracking level
and digital trim. and how and why thay used it.

joe allen

[Crash]

I use digital trim a lot. It' comes in very handy once you've automated your tracks and you want change the volume to pull something down or maybe bring up a vocal. I'm very glad that the digital trim is on the board.

James

Interesting... I use the "modify levels" with the "include automation" check box ticked. It allows half db changes. I may have to try the digital trim trick as it probably is quicker...though I am seldomly in a hurry in mix mode.

[anyhorizon]

I guess that's the beauty of the d8b. There are many ways to skin a cat. Personally I only use digital trim to attenuate or increase a level that is less than optimum from the digital source. These days, unless the material was recorded by someone else, I never use it. I'm in crash's court and use modify levels if I find the mix level getting out of hand. It's a very handy tool.

Peter

[fishtail]

Modify levels is the BEST tool for fine tuning automation. When I finally worked that one out years ago it made my mixing and recall so much easier. I only wished I had learned that from one of the masters here earlier...
marco

[High C Double G]

Automation... if we go back into the not too distant past, this would mean you would not have to switch the gears in a car.

A few times (as a musician) I was called into the control room... "Hey can you do us a favor?" Being a helpful fellow, I went to the control room and was prompted to do this, at this specific time, with these (insert number) of faders. With all honesty, I had no idea what was happening but there were a lot of hands moving about - insert lousy sexual joke here - So there is my pre-automation days. We automated manually.

And with all honesty this is why, for my little project studio, I went from a decent sounding analogue mixer to the d8b. I found myself spending a lot of time writing stuff down on where I left off on songs I was working on. I wanted to work on more than one thing at a time and some times many things. Well, this became very time consuming and to be honest, I always was "in the ball park" so there needed to be tweaking and that is more time... time time time... it keeps marching on.

You know as well as I know when you call up a project and everything is like you left it --- WOW!!! All the faders snap into place. Hello!!!

What a wonderful world we live in now that it is much easier to navigate things. Sorry for the long one, but it’s true. Don’t forget to buy my High C Double G decipher code book for $30.00 US so you can read this post! ha ha… okay maybe not funny

Just a rant,
Michael

[Crash]

I remember standing on a chair above the old analog beast, camera in hand, maintaining balance, focus. Total recall baby!!! Then I got my first experience with total recall. I can't remember the model SSL but it was interesting. You basically had a video monitor with all the channel knobs and their current settings marked with a black line, where they should be for the saved session in white. You manually aligned everyting up to get a grey line, channel by channel. It was total recall buit there was no "snapping" of anything, took about an hour as I recall and you were crosseyed when you were done. I remember the first time I saw the d8b do it's deal and I was blown away. How instantaneous....