essential tracks wrote:
Just out of interest, is there a difference between doing this with output 1+2 and the master fader?
Cheers
If you only have one stereo output, there's no difference. If you have more stereo ouputs, the master fader would lower them all simultaneously.
There is a another way: insert a Gain plugin on your Stereo Output channel strip and use that to throttle down the signal.
Technically all three do the exact same thing, so it is eventually just personal preference, but this is my order of preference (from elegant to less elegant) when dealing with an "overheated" output signal:
1. Lower the contributors' levels.
2. Use a Gain plugin (last in the chain, or only followed by metering plugins) on the Stereo Out, or use a gain function of any other plugin already used on the Stereo Out (EQ, compressor).
3. Lower the Stereo Output fader.
4. Lower the master fader. (I never do that, I've "glued it in place" (mentally). Master fader? I have no master fader!)
Again, all four methods will yield the exact same result.