I can make a follow up video cause there is some more deep dive I can do. And I'll include a tab sheet to help you decide what you need. However this is one of those things where I don't think that'll help as much as a schematic for what each is doing. I'll include both just in case. I'll let you know when I put that up.

I mean its just my branding I could add more functional images!

I first opened it* In 5 but I wasn't recording a lot back then I was more invested in my Live Audio career. I was in Logic for the st 6 years casually now that I am switching careers and wanting to do more studio recording and be my own artist. I switch to Studio One with 7 and haven't looked back I feel right at home!

www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=is+gain+sensitivity+control&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 You can do a simple google search and find your errors on gain...... I explained the mic incorrectly though. About the coil it's not the whole process of how it works. So yes you were more correct.

​ @Chelitosuav The source you have linked has no relevance to the discussion if you took the time to read it. I tried to link actually relevant sources that showcase why you are incorrect, but youtube does not allow me to post links. However "NOT the same! Microphone Gain vs Sensitivity" By Randy Rektor should explain things in a very digestible way for you. In short, I think you are conflating input sensitivity of a interface with microphone sensitivity. This is very easy to test, take a signal generator and watch as the volume increases and decreases as you adjust the gain, despite the signal generator not outputting any more signal than it has before. In fact, the way preamps are designed prevent the incoming signal from being changed at all, every increase in volume happens post an input buffer. These types of differences matter to advanced studio engineers, which is maybe why you have not encountered an issue with your misunderstanding in your own personal production work flow. But for the people who are designing the tools that you use, this type of distinction is important.

I am not going to lie I forgot that there different on a technicality. But now I remember why audio engineers don't waist there time separating them. Because technically it's still wrong to say sensitivity is different. Because gain is measurement of how much of the mic sensitivity I wish to access. Therefore Sensitivity without gain is a circle its pointless. If my only way to access sensitivity of a mic is gain. It is fair to say that gain is increasing the sensitivity. So I gain up an access more of the mics potential sensitivity. I still am making the mic on a technical scale more sensitive. Because I accessed more of it. So in a nut shell since you want to go analyze everything. Gain is a potentiometer that sets the amount of sensitivity I wish to access. But in that same terminology saying gain increases sensitivity is more correct than incorrect. I don't like making audio more complicated than it has to be. So yes gain on a more technical level is sensitivity. It's a measurement for how much id like to access. There fore making it increase the sensitivity of the mic or anything. So to simplify it because it doesn't help anyone to separate them gain is sensitivity.

@@Chelitosuav Do whatever mental gymnastics you need to do to always be right man

@@ItsTakeingTooLongso are you telling me gain doesn’t give me access to the sensitivity of the mic?

Glad that I was able to help!

Like I said part 2 is coming And I will annihilate all mis information. You guys don't understand what you're saying. I will explain after I come back. It will be up tonight you guys don't understand the terms you are using. And you will find out soon. I don't mind being correcting if I am wrong. But in this case I am 100% you are clueless about this comment. Perceive is to deceive one self which is what you have just done. Be ready

Yes, Mr Anderson gets it 👌

@@j3ffn4v4rr0 Oh God you guys just wait for part 2 you will se you have no clue

@@Chelitosuav You can't get to the truth by doubling down on an incorrect answer.

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Also, the whole idea of recording between -16 and -20 dB being better for mixing is completely foreign to me. If I’m mixing something, receiving recordings with a lower resolution just means the final product will be noisier. Honestly, it sounds like something which might have made sense in analog setups but got “mistranslated” into to the digital era. But again, maybe I'm missing something?

Ive read both of your comments. The problem with treating your guitar like a mic input is that's it is not a mic input. You can gain up if you would like! Like I said if you want to boost the signal. However you will have little room to move in the DAW. If you gain maybe 5db your amp plugin will be closer to unity. Meaning a terrible situation for mixing. You want to leave enough headroom. Your guitar is not a mic you're not supposed to treat as such.... The signal ratio for an amp is set by instrument monitoring the preamp. The impedances are different of course but the minute you set that to instrument level it sends the appropriate the signal your guitar would send the amp. (Last I checked we don't plug a cable in to a gain knob and gain up to get the amp to hear us well.) The impedance change is so that your A/D is more like you would plug into an amp. Gaining will introduce more preamp noice even if you bring down the input volume your not getting a clean sounds anymore. (If you use a distorted tone it is like extreme compression. You are raising the noise floor then boosting with distortion or fuzz. Remember that drives are all compression) I don't have bad preamps. Even if I gain up my interface little bit I will be close to clipping. You don't have much boosting options before you clip. However sometimes I will gain up because the guitar I used to make preset has a hotter output. So to get the same response I will introduce the gain knob/boost pedal in between. Typically the only reason you use the gain knob is if you track through a console and are sending to a separate room with an amp. Old consoles like the Mackie 8bus do not have an instrument input converters so you would gain the console knob to a good level for the amp. This a process Nile Rodgers would do sometimes but his preferred way was and is directly into the console. You can use the color box by JHS to get the same result. As for recording between -16/-20 the reason we do this is because it allows for compression without breaking headroom with just a guitar track. When you have enough headroom the other instruments. if needed can be boosted as well or Eq boosted and not clip your master. Recording at unity will have you constantly battling your master fader and it will always be clipping. Especially if all your tracks are maxed out at unity you don't have enough headroom on a global scale. You can get away with some digital clipping but not a whole a lot. The signal your hearing when I play the guitar comes in fairly low in the DAW but it allows me to have a clean mixing session. No clipping and smooth sounding tones. My noice floor is not almost none existent due to a gate obviously but also I didn't bring up then noise floor by gaining up. All I'm stating is that you shouldn't treat your guitar like a mic. They are different instruments entirely. And if you an are recording bands and don't want to deal with constantly fight your master fader clipping leave your self way more headroom than you think! It will save your mixes. I have yet to have session where I am clipping my master in along time! That's why we record at that volume you guitar isn't the only instrument that has to fit a mix. And you will find yourself fighting your master fader pretty early on because you are recording to loud.

Also I would like to remind you that gain is not volume. You can test this out yourself. Take your phone and play some music without gaining up. Lift your phone up and see where it starts cutting out. Then turn the gain up where you would and do the test again. I guarantee you that the music will be heard a lot further then if the gain was set correctly. Ever notice that when you turn on boost pedal you get more feedback? You are literally increasing the sensitivity of your pickups making more prone to clip your signal before the amp. Gain knobs are simply to control how big the pickups cloud is. Gain is not volume. And when I change impedances I am literally just getting rid of the mis translation. You do not need to gain up in order for your cable to communicate with an amp. For that reason when you set the language on your interface to high impedance for your cable. You have literally set it to to communicate properly. It's really just that simple. Edit I just realized you referred to volume as resolution. Resolution would be changing the literal buffer size from 96khz to 48khz. That is a resolution. Not volume. When you receive mix make sure you know the resolution so that when you load your audio tracks they aren't stretched.

@@Chelitosuav The instrument button IS adding gain (as well as setting the correct impedance) to your signal! If you were to use a passive DI box (which only is supposed to change the impedance) and plugged that input into your interface, then you would need to set the gain appropriately. Your interface is doing this for you, which is why you are unable to add much more gain before you are clipping. As the commenter above said, you really want to take advantage of as much of your converter as possible while leaving appropriate headroom. While you are correct that adding gain does raise the volume of baseline level of noise, the important factor when looking at noise while recording is the ratio of the signal to the noise. The preamps and converters have no clue what you are plugging into them. When they see and input all they see is the voltage and impedance looking back, whether its from a guitar, microphone, or keyboard. For this reason you shouldn't look at an instrument any differently when it comes to gain staging, its your job as an engineer to make sure the signal coming into the DAW is one that is capturing the most amount of information possible. And yes, gain staging is important outside of live sound. "Last I checked we don't plug a cable in to a gain knob and gain up to get the amp to hear us well." It is not uncommon for amps to have a "preamp" knob. Just look at the JCM800! This is just a clean gain knob. You are controlling how hard you are hitting the clipping portion of your amp (additionally while they may seem alike, compression and drive/distortion are not the same, as compression does not aim to add harmonic information in the same way drive does).

@ItsTakeingTooLong Actually you should look up where drive comes from it is extreme compression! Also Gain is not volume. I hear you but every interface literally sets the cable to the perfect communication point. I could do it with a focusrite with and apogee doesn't matter it literally sets it correctly if you wish to boost your amp go for it. But saying gaining by default is the way to go is incorrect. Also once again compression and drives are not different pay attention to your sound wave when recording with heavy distortion it is a literal block. Try a fuzz or just a lot of gain it is literal compression. Also setting the gain right isn't gain staging. Gain staging is the balance of volume and your feed back point. Do you set your gains correctly yes but you do not gain stage they are entirely different things. Gain staging has to do with controlling the volume along side the gain not just a gain knob. Also on the point of compression and distortion being the same use an LA2A and drive it the way you would a distortion pedal thats literally where it comes from. Listen to the Led Zeppelin song black dog there is not distortion pedals going on there it is three stacks of an LA2A. Also the gain on the amp sets the sensitivity of your pickups just like your interface does. That's why when you gain up you get more feedback. Once again it really is just that simple. Edit: I do want to also say there is one thing called overdrive which the distortion we discover from clipping and analog board by accident. But when you clip and analog board. It starts to compress.

Glad to clarify it all 🙏

What's good, so there are two ways you can go about this. You are saying Vst but I think you're talking about an amp simulator. If that's the case if you feel comfortable with committing audio. You can go to the console and put it the on the input itself. This will mean you are putting the amp before the studio one console fader. And printing the amp sound. Then take those two performances and pan them left/right. If you want a little more freedom and not sure you want to commit the audio put it on the track itself.. You can also use an aux track. This is the closest thing in studio one to bus recording. Set the input of the aux to the appropriate input. Then set the output of the aux to an output you aren't using because you don't want to here double. Then on your panned left and right channels for guitar set the input to aux channel. I usually label it recording bus or Amp to make it easier to tell what's happening. Let me know if that's what you are looking for. Having multiple instances of an amp sim can eat up the cpu this is a great way to save it. Now if it is an actual vst and you want to send it to multiple locations. You can use a bus channel as a chain to multiple tracks this will however print your midi instrument to audio. You will set it up similar to how you set up the Aux channel for an amp sim.

@@Chelitosuav Yo! Yeah they are Neural DSP plugins for guitars, basically an AMP SIM but the file type is a VST in the DAW. Probably not that important but I was wondering in what category (effects or virtual instruments) those plugins would fit in!? I've tried in the past to print the sound but I like the freedom to play with the tone after taking the takes! But like you said, I was probably doing things in a way that it was really taxing for the CPU, like throwing the plugin in every channel LOL. I tried the BUS channel route and it seems to be doing the job! I'm curious about the AUX workflow though - not sure my head got the hang of it yet lol - lots of input/output routing stuff going on (I'm very visual and learn by doing ahah) If only I had an old physical studio with all the old hardware and someone to make me plug the cables so I could visualise the routing🤣 Cheers brother, and thanks for taking the time to respond!

I will make a video for you I got just the thing you need! 🤙🏼 It will be up by Sunday

kzbin.info/www/bejne/mGnScqqmYtKVr6s I made this video specifically for you hope it helps! There is a little rant at the beginning of guitar recording technique in this new age. Hopefully it clarifies what I was saying to do.

Appreciate it!

I have a couple videos but I want to get more accustomed to it before I do a tips video for Studio One