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4 Getting started

Setting the digital recording level

One of the advantages of digital- to-digital recording is that you don't have to set recording levels—and risk distortion by overloading the disc. With pre- recorded material, the digital level has usually been optimized and you shouldn't need to change it. If you're making a digital copy of a CD, DAT or MD that was not optimally produced and that was consistently under-recorded, you can boost the overall level by up to +20dB. Remember though, that any peaks in the original recording run the risk of distorting the copy.

In many other digital recording applications, you may also have cause to boost the recording volume since the volume of some digital sources can be relatively low, but again, if there are any peaks in the source material, you run the risk of momentary distortion.

It's also possible to reduce the digital recording volume, but in most cases, this is not desirable. However, if you're putting together a mix CD (various tracks compiled from different sources), and there is a track which stands out as generally louder than the others, then you might want to reduce the level of that track. Note that this feature will not remove distortion already on the source material.

Once changed, the new digital recording level remains until you change it again, or reset it. Each digital input has its own level which can be set independently.

Note: If you are recording DTS encoded audio CDs or HDCD format CDs, the digital recording level must be set to 0.0dB for recording.

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