happydan

Yeah. I’ve been DJing for nearly 14 years (eek!) and never had the gain trims max out. These days, outboard soundcards run plenty hot enough to give you good oomph as well. If I ever have to watch you mix, I will be tearing my hair out!

U31, post: 4768 wrote: I disagree. I think its bad practice to tweak gains once set, unless a track is an absolute mile out on levels. That’s what the volume faders are for

Based on what evidence? Back in’t day, only the top end mixers had gains (or even none, if you go far enough back), so you had to use the line fader, but the whole point of gain trims is to tweak the level of the incoming song. THE WHOLE POINT.

U31, post: 4764 wrote: So there is always headroom to make a track louder in the mix on that particular channel, its just good practice from back in the vinyl days and something i still do with digital
Some tracks seem quieter then others (or louder) even after they have all been leveled with something like MP3 gain, and rather then be fiddling with gains ill just have my vol faders set at 3/4 and tweak up or down to get similar levels.
On old analogue mixers there even used to be a line marked about 3/4 way up..

Again… that’s what gain trims are for.

I got complimented by a sound engineer when I was playing at a competition, for caring about the sound levels and quality! ::)