Recording Metal Tutorial. Levels and Gain Staging.

Recording Metal Tutorial. Setting up Gain Staging and Levels while Recording your Heavy Metal Guitars, Drums, Bass and Vocals at Home Studio - Makes it or Breaks it!

Find out how different is the sound for correct and incorrect gain staging within Logic, Cubase, Pro Tools, Reaper, or any other DAW, and how to set it up correctly.

0:00 The Problem
01:57 Clipping and its Effects
02:49 Clipped and Unclipped Examples
05:29 How To Set Gain Staging
09:15 Different Scales

[robbysguitars]

Good stuff, my friend. This is the kind of thing every bedroom recording producer needs to know.

[Justwantpeacelove]

I'm guilty of this, I needed this advice thank you brother!

[Dave_DuskHaven]

Curious? When you’re adjusting your faders during gain staging are you applying the same reduction on every track including doubles and bus’s?

[BrettFairchild]

When I try to follow this guide, even with the smallest amount of limiting, I have to keep most of my faders so low that there’s barely any room to lower to lower volume still in logic. Help?

[ulfb]

Great tutorial, I was looking for just this topic. I record guitar with UAD preamp - DI. Tested again with chug guitar, now peak - 7.2 dB, RMS around - 14 to - 17 dB. Which value is most important Peak or RMS? Cheers from Stockholm.

[korayem]

Should I do this per track or on mixing bus or master bus?