![]() ![]() ![]() Read on for a process to use to get your guitar recording levels right every time. This is a comprehensive beginner guide to recording, and takes you right through from setting up your first equipment to recording your first track. If you are new to home recording in general, I highly recommend you check out my beginner’s guide to recording music at home. These days we are all recording digitally, and to set levels that hot for a digital recording is a very bad idea. In the analog recording days, it was good practice to set the level much hotter i.e. There is confusion around setting recording levels due to how they used to be set. Generally, if you have peaks greater than -10dB, that is too loud. These numbers are a guide, not a hard and fast rule. It is acceptable for peaks to go up to around -15dB. I have since learned that the correct level to record guitars at is a lot lower than I originally thought.Īs a general rule, guitars should be recorded at an average level of about -18dB. This caused my recordings to not sound great, and caused problems with a lack of headroom when mixing. When I first started recording guitars digitally, I would set the level far too high. ![]()
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