What you need to know about GAIN STAGING

A video on gain staging and the reason why you should know it, in any DAW i.e Pro tools, Fl studio abelton etc. from your bedroom.
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Help Me Devvon so when you bypass the compressor for the vocals, are you checking to have relatively the same loudness or the same gain???

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2 mins in, and I already realized I've been gain-staging wrong. No wonder Mixing gives me hell

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@@HelpMeDevvon how does clip gaining work in terms of plugin calibration to 0db? I heard somewhere that 0db in analog is - 18db in digital. Do you know anything about this?

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@@ELLIOT8209 i agree, i couldn't get it right tho

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@@ELLIOT8209 Analog metering is VU. Gain staging only really matters if you use analog modeled plugins in the chain which sound at their best at 0 VU (-18db). Search "mvMeter 2" for a nice free meter.

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finally someone breaks down just stage gaining i feel this is a topic that gets over look a lot and never gets discussed so thank you for this!!!

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For my Ableton users: the trim tool is called "Utility" and it's found in the audio effects folder.

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[@taliaah]

You're right but i'd say you dont even have to use the Utility audio effect for that.. Just turn it down in the clip view settings. And for instance, if you're using an instrument vst and you want to gainstage, turn down the volume on the vst and not the fader on your DAW.

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Nah actually Ableton’s Utility plug-in doesn’t do any clipping, it’s just for controlling the gain, width, M/S balance, panning & the phase - but it doesn’t actually clip any peaks.

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I've been engineering for 3 years. I work at a studio. I make money freelancing. You literally taught me more about gain staging in this video than anyone else that has taught me how to engineer lol

[@johncaccioppo1142]

Maybe you can explain something for me. I suspect that the engineering principle behind this has everything to do with the power quality of each link in the signal chain. If that's true, you would drive your signal from the perspective of not just "how everyone does it", or from one end of the chain versus the other, but rather in terms of the quality of your equipment and its power supplies. Does that make sense to you, and has anyone ever posed gain-staging to you in this context before?

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@@johncaccioppo1142 this is the original purpose of gain staging. the point is to minimize noise at each link (which is why people question its efficacy in a daw)

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[@kellv3n]

For FL Studio, my idea is to do the following: - If recording vocals, have the Hornet VU Meter set at -18DB with max peak of -12DB for 0VU. Run a few live takes and see how the gain is adjusted automatically. Set the gain on your microphone or interface to adjust so you are close to this mark. This way you won't be recording too hot or too cold. - On the mixer, put the Hornet VU meter on the first insert of each channel. Run the Hornet VU meter again so it adjusts and sits at that target volume range. - Now you are ready to mix. - An additional step is to put the Hornet on the Master and bump up the volume to whatever level you are looking for (to have the loudest possible mix). I'm new to this so this is all based on logical thinking. Not sure if it will work or not. -

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Finally someone explains this in a way that makes sense. Devvon, you have a gift. I've watched a million videos on this topic over the past couple years and not one of them had the explanation you did with how it matters what's going through the inputs of the plugins. Thank you!

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this is the best video on gain staging. straight to the point no shennaningans. thank you

[@dat1beats]

I’m glad someone explained this correctly. There’s a lot of false gain staging videos out there. Some people say that it’s not necessary but it works for me. The only time these rules don’t apply is when you are purposely clipping tracks through an analog plugin and turning the output down on the plugin.

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I feel like understanding and utilizing gain staging really is the most important thing to improving your mixes

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this has by far been the most helpful video on gain staging/signal flow in general I've ever watched. THANK YOU

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Devon, I use Machine and I went about gain staging the way you explained and man my sounds are outstanding. my before music was all cloudy and distorted and then u brought the light. Thanks Devon

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NEEDED THIS ONE!!! Getting a pre-amp this week and I needed to know where to have the gain staged before recording vocals, as well as where to have the beat set... I've seen tutorials where people say to set it at 0 but I always ended up trimming it down because I was trying to get a softer sounding mix that the vocals are crisp and clear while sitting in the beat... I think this method will work like a charm... I appreciate this one frfr

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