At 11:13 AM 5/3/2007, you wrote: >On May 3, 2007, at 7:04 AM, Roger Jackson wrote: >. Ideally, you should record everything so that it mixes itself >with as little fader movement as possible. The better engineers did >this back in the analog days, and it's no different for digital. Gotta disagree with this. As far back as I can remember it was standard practice to push analog tape levels (with a proper understanding of peak versus RMS levels) for every track. In addition to the often-sought tape compression this provided, it also ensured better signal to noise ratio, and was especially important when no noise reduction was being employed. On an analog console, of course, you would set the monitor faders to get a good working mix, which would remain consistent during recording and playback. Even though these hot recording levels are less critical in our digital world, I've never seen the advantage of Logic's system requiring the setting of these working levels twice. I want my playback levels for each track to be the same whether recording or playing back. This is particularly annoying when jumping straight from a multi-channel session to a single track overdub or punchin as many of the faders have to be manually set again.

--- In logic-users@yahoogroups.com, Sean McCoy <osr@...> wrote: > I want my playback levels for each > track to be the same whether recording or playing back. An environment-based workaround is possible, with a couple of limitations: A - it will only be 7-bit accurate (128 steps) B - it needs to be manually added to existing songs (tedious) and added to your song template(s) for use in new songs. Instructions: 1 - Go to the Environment Audio layer. 2 - For each audio object fader, create a "numerical 3" fader underneath. 3 - Cable from the audio object to the num 3 fader. 4 - Cable from the num 3 fader to the audio object. 5 - Create a single "button" fader. 6 - Set its "out" definition to Meta 99 (fader bang). 7 - Set its "range" definition to 1-1. 8 - Cable that to each of the num 3 faders (or cable it to an ornament and cable that to each of the faders if you like tidy). Record-enable, set your levels for each track. After recording, click the button to set the playback levels. This works because Logic doesn't send the levels via the audio object cable outlet when it switches from record to playback, so the num 3 fader stores the record level. John Pitcairn ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - LC Xmu Logic/Mackie Control emulation & management, LC Xview software LC/MC display, Logic environments & stuff... Opus Locus - http://www.opuslocus.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -