Even a Technics 1200 doesn’t amplify the tiny signal the needle produces by vibrating in the groove. It doesn’t really amplify a signal at all. Some controllers have mixers built in, but for this I’m talking about standalone units. Let’s explain quickly what equipment is in your chain and what it does, exactly.Ĭontroller/CD-Player/Turntable : All this does is take the sound from the medium you have and convert it to an electrical signal.
Now it looks like a cross between a sawtooth and a square wave, neither of which you want going to your speakers. What you see with the green part of the wave is a CLIPPED WAVE… and therefore… a distorted signal. Once you crank the gain on your channel, and bring those lights into the red, your signal is no longer a pretty sine wave, it looks like the green section of this wave, because the peaks of the sine wave are sheared off by the clipping limits. Remember those tic marks from the other picture? They are represented on this graph by Vcc (Voltage Cycle Clipped) OK, see that blue, smooth sine wave? That’s what it should look like when your levels are all green, or slightly flirting with the yellow. I’ve been to concerts where I’ve stood near giant stacks of speakers and I can still talk to people next to me without shouting, and it’s still plenty loud. I recently attended a house party where an otherwise good DJ kept cranking the volume to the point that you could not speak to anyone at a normal volume anywhere in the 2 story house. It’s a problem with amateurs who don’t understand how it all works and/or believe that louder = better. Maybe of the larger clubs have giant sound systems that never hurt my ears, because knowledgeable stage managers are keeping a close eye on the talent. I almost never have a problem with this when pros are behind the helm. And then, when I leave the club, it sounds like someone has shoved cotton in my ears because they are ringing so badly. While it’s not OVERLY distorted, it’s certainly less pleasant than clean sound. Yet, I go to many clubs and other events where the music is so loud that I can’t hear myself think. Red is primarily not a good thing unless you’re talking about the ripeness of a Washington apple. Ok, I didn’t mean to be vulgar there, but I’m trying to illustrate a point. Once a month, women HATE seeing the color red. All their other products are somewhere between unimpressive and harmful.It’s a pretty safe bet that when you see something red, it’s not a good thing. MiK is the top dog, a real stellar program that imho everyone should have. If you have tracks that are really poorly mastered and could benefit from remastering, you can probably get better results with Maximus or Ozone, or even just some EQ and a mild amount of compression.
SDJ (probably everything else has this too) has an automagical gain adjustment that gets set at the time a track is analyzed, so you usually don't need to do much gain adjustment these days. You're absolutely right just use the gain knobs. There is no reason for anyone to use Platinum Notes. In fact, that's probably what is happening shoving everything through a limiter will indeed make everything the same volume. The files all showed up as corrupt in Scratch Live, and sounded like they were crammed at 8+ dB through a limiter. I had them send me a demo of what Platinum Notes would do for a few of my tracks, and the results were outrageously bad. Imagine running everything through Sausage Fattener, and you get the idea of what horrors have been visited upon your tunes. It basically applies an unnecessary "one-size-fits-none" mastering chain to your tracks.
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