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In article writes:

wouldn't calibrate a digital recorder at -12 dBFS

People do this in order to operate the console with more headroom. Many
consoles simply don't have 18-20 dB of headroom available in the real
world.

Sad but true today. And you can get away with it because tracking in a
lot of contemporary music doesn't require any more than a few dB of
headroom because of the heavy use of compression. Once you limit the
dynamic range, you know how much dynamic range you need and can adjust
gain accordingly. Still it would be nice to have an input level
control on our sound cards.

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I'm really Mike Rivers - )