Gain Staging - First Simple Step To Set Up Your Mix

Gain staging in mixing is how to ensure the cleanest, most dynamic mix gets exported from your DAW. This video explains how to gain stage your multitracks before you actually start the mixing process, where to look to find distortion and how to avoid it in the first place.
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Start
03:06 - Why is gain staging important in a DAW?
13:21 - Demo starts here!
15:33 - First listen to check levels for gain staging
16:37 - What is Unity gain?
22:59 - Prefader metering in Pro Tools
24:28 - Gain staging the imported tracks
31:04 - Why to keep your faders near unity gain
35:07 - Checking the new levels after gain staging the multitracks
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This video accompanies my Gain Staging With A VU Meter video and addresses the steps to take before you start to actually mix.
Gain staging in mixing starts as soon as you import your tracks. The first glance at the waveforms is when you make your first important mixing decision.
Any place you have the opportunity to change the gain in a mix is a "gain stage" and that is not only reserved to gain parameters but also applies to gain added or taken away using EQ and dynamics controllers. In this video, I'm going to show where the very first instance of gain staging takes place and how to get the optimum levels into your plugins.
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