When I used to teach Sound Engineering (for Live Music, Theatre, Recording and Radio!) I used to recommend that people started at around the 70% mark on each fader. Strictly speaking all faders at full should be fine so long as the original signal doesn't over-mod (which for an MP3 or WAV means getting hard limited at 100%) but each stage can raise the level again so can over-mod the imput of the next stage. Thus best value - given that faders are logaritmic not linear - is around 1/sqr(2) ie. 70.7%, as this should give an output level roughly that of the input and hence not add distortion other than that introduced by the electronic components within that mixer/amp stage. </tech off>
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Date: 2003-05-23 06:02 am (UTC)</tech off>