🦉 You don't need to overthink it. If you have a commercially released track to compare to, you just try to match the audio levels of its individualised parts. Usually your hardware or plugins have led indicators to guide you with green usually good, red is close to clipping, etc.

🦉 One thing I know about op-amps or transistor amps, is the sweet spot is about 70% gain. You don't want to go too loud to avoid clipping & harmonic distortion, and being too quiet results in low signal:noise ratio.

🤠 Anyway, what I like to do is set the gain knobs, use an amp insert FX, or normalise the audio tracks, so that with all the mixer faders at their default 100 (unity gain) values, the individual mix parts are already at the level required for the mix. Then when you need to fade out or automate a fader, you have the full digital resolution available from 0-100.

Last edited by Mel David on Aug-29-2019 at 19:41