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Old 11-08-2014, 12:54 PM   #113
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Originally Posted by JamesNV View Post
I have a Firestudio Mobile as well. On the specs it says the reference level for 0 dBFS is +10 dBu.

Does that suggest the FSMobile was designed to record a bit hotter? For example, the regular Firestudio lists it's reference level at +18dBu.
Yeah, isn't that interesting.

It seems fair to phrase it as you did: from the perspective of the analog gear ahead of the interface, recording into a Firestudio you would want resultant RMS peaks around -18 dBFS, where you want them at -10 dBFS on the Firestudio Mobile.

Put another way, a signal at 0 dBu (the analog "sweet spot" in the generalized, oversimplified sense) coming into the FS registers as -18dBFS, and coming in at 0 dBu into the FSM registers at -10dBFS.

(This distinction mattering only the analog gear ahead of the converter, of course, and any analog-simulating plugins you might use, etc etc, see long thread above...)
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