EddNog
Senior Member
If I’m using ReplayGain, but not room correction or PEQ, is it safe to apply some positive adjustment in the Pre Gain control under Inputs without causing distortion or clipping? I use an external room correction/bass management/tone control DSP (DSPeaker’s Anti-Mode X2D), and due to the use of the tone control feature to apply a Harman curve, I lose a substantial amount of gain, and with the VibeLink connecting digitally to the Anti-Mode’s output, I can’t just jam a preamp with active gain in there to get more gain. I am hoping that (at least theoretically) I can apply (maybe no more than +5dB) a positive gain in the Pre Gain panel to get some gain back, especially since I use ReplayGain to help reduce big up or down volume changes between songs on my mixed playlists in Qobuz.
Anyone got advice and/or experience in general with positive settings in the Pre Gain panel, especially used in conjunction with ReplayGain? In reality there are only a handful of tracks in my library where I currently peg volume at 100 and it’s still a smidge not loud enough (such as Karajan conducting Beethoven or Carmen performed by All-Star Percussion Ensemble…highly dynamic orchestral pieces that ought to be very loud when hitting peak passages), and they’re still just slightly less loud than I want to go.
-Ed
Anyone got advice and/or experience in general with positive settings in the Pre Gain panel, especially used in conjunction with ReplayGain? In reality there are only a handful of tracks in my library where I currently peg volume at 100 and it’s still a smidge not loud enough (such as Karajan conducting Beethoven or Carmen performed by All-Star Percussion Ensemble…highly dynamic orchestral pieces that ought to be very loud when hitting peak passages), and they’re still just slightly less loud than I want to go.
-Ed
