Hi all,
Hope to get some input on this. I have recently started recording again (I mainly play through my Kemper Cab) and have been playing around with the SPDIF level settings on my toaster. My Kemper goes into my Presonus Studio 1824c via SPDIF. Before getting the Kemper Cab, I always found that this setup sounded good but lacked headroom and punch for lack of a better term. The Presonus mixer allows me to boost the the SPDIF signal which I didn't do previously (I always kept it at 0dB and the Kemper SPDIF output at 0dB). I recently started boosting the mixer SPDIF signal anywhere from 1.00dB to 3.00dB and that brought out the punch and headroom I have been missing but then I get clipping on my interface. I remedied this by lowering the SPDIF signal from the Kemper to -2.0dB, set the mixer signal to 1.25dB, and also turned up my ADAM monitors quite a bit and the clipping has been tamed but still feel like I am doing something wrong. The clipping would happen with my Les Paul w/ PAF's and my PRS Custom that has Fishman Fluence Moderns even with taking the clean sense down quite a bit, mainly while palm muting. Again I am happy with the sound I'm getting with the above mentioned setup but just wondering how others are setting up their levels. Thanks