DAW with fine gain increments

by **Mark Bassett** » Sun Jun 28, 2009 3:15 pm

Hey all, I'm after a DAW that offers gain increments of 0.01dB. Any thoughts?

Cheers.

Mark.

by **rick** » Sun Jun 28, 2009 3:43 pm

Mark Andrew Bassett wrote:Hey all, I'm after a DAW that offers gain increments of 0.01dB. Any thoughts?

Cheers.

Mark.

i think the cops can do that on the RBT

by **Thirteen** » Sun Jun 28, 2009 4:09 pm

Nuendo does it if you hold the shift key as you move the slider, I just tried it, without the shift key the level display changes in 1.00dB steps, with the shift key down it changes in 0.01dB steps. I assume Cubase would be the same?

Rather than buy a new DAW, maybe there are plug-in's that will adjust at those resolutions too?

by **Chinagraf** » Sun Jun 28, 2009 4:35 pm

Cubase does it. I just double click the level window and type it in. It has 2 decimal places, maybe it could do 3, I've never tried.
I worked with a famous engineer once, I was producing when I was in a band and I thought the vocal was a touch low. He said I'll turn it up half a db. I said can people hear half a db difference? He said "You can in one of my mixes" Haaaaa.

The 'shift' key modifier that Nymo mentioned to mouse finer increments works in quite a few systems.

by **Mark Bassett** » Sun Jun 28, 2009 6:05 pm

Cheers guys, it's not for mixing purposes obviously, it's for a research project.

by **TimS** » Sun Jun 28, 2009 7:33 pm

PT does this holding the CTRL key also..

by **wez** » Sun Jun 28, 2009 8:21 pm

TimS wrote:PT does this holding the CTRL key also..

think you mean command/apple key (on a mac at least)?

and unless PT8 is different, i think you also mean .1dB (mark's after .01dB which is extremely fine).

sequoia does it (and therefore samplitude probably does as well)

by **wez** » Sun Jun 28, 2009 8:37 pm

Thirteen wrote:Rather than buy a new DAW, maybe there are plug-in's that will adjust at those resolutions too?

and yes, there are a number of plugs that do this.... Sonalksis StereoTools and Flux Stereo Tool come to mind

by **Chinagraf** » Mon Jun 29, 2009 2:59 pm

Hey Mark, tried this today and just confirming Cubase 5 does do .01dB on all faders. I tried .009 and it rounded to .01, so there must be some rounding after 2 decimal places, just like Safeway.

by **Mark Bassett** » Mon Jun 29, 2009 6:03 pm

Thanks Andy.

by **TimS** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 10:32 am

wez wrote:
TimS wrote:PT does this holding the CTRL key also..

think you mean command/apple key (on a mac at least)?

and unless PT8 is different, i think you also mean .1dB (mark's after .01dB which is extremely fine).

sequoia does it (and therefore samplitude probably does as well)

you are right wez - I read 0.1, not 0.01
my bad.
PT only does 0.1 incrememnts.. not sure about PT 8 though - I'm still on 7.4cs8
I've got Flux Stereo Tool and its great - I'd forgotten about its fine resolution mode.

by **Adam Dempsey** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 12:17 am

Chinagraf wrote:Cubase does it. I just double click the level window and type it in. It has 2 decimal places, maybe it could do 3, I've never tried.
I worked with a famous engineer once, I was producing when I was in a band and I thought the vocal was a touch low. He said I'll turn it up half a db. I said can people hear half a db difference? He said "You can in one of my mixes" Haaaaa.

I had a debate in class with an electronics lecturer at RMIT in '91.. he was claiming nobody could hear less than, something like, 2dB changes.
Very easy to hear 0.5dB, especially with broad bandwidth EQ or mix level, and often something as sensitive as vocal level in a mix.

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