Geoff Wood -nospam wrote:
"TonyP" wrote in message news:4199df2d$0$2678

I can't say I've ever had more than 96 dB DNR at a live gig anyway. And I
know the maximum output of the desk.
24 bit only buys you one extra bit of headroom on the M-Audio delta cards
anyway.

So you aleays set your record level by background ambient noise and rest
assured they can't go too loud ?

On live symphonic gigs, I will often use the audience noise as a rough
reference to get levels when there is no possibility of getting a proper
level check before the curtain.

Another trick is to ask the conductor to play the loudest sound in the piece.
The actual performance will be 6 dB louder than that, so set that at -12dBFS.

Or do you set your level to what you think is reasonably close to FS, but
safe, and hope like **** they didn't have to many eggs for breakfast ?

Sometimes that's all you can do on a live gig. That's what makes it fun!
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."