Volume difference when recording internal tracks

Elektron Gear Octatrack
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Hello all,

Since I haven’t seen anyone else with the same problem, I’m guessing I’m doing something terribly wrong here. I have made a pattern which I want to record as a whole, to use the output as a sample in other sets.

I follow these steps;

  1. I configure one of the track recorders like this;
    [ul]
    [li]INAB: -[/li]
    [li]INCD: -[/li]
    [li]RLEN: 32[/li]
    [li]TRIG: ONE2[/li]
    [li]SRC3: MAIN[/li]
    [li]LOOP: OFF[/li]
    [/ul]

  2. I place a recording trig on the corresponding track.

The recording works, and the pattern plays as loud as the sample should be. However, when I play my recorded track, the volume is around 60-70% lower. I can solve this by amplifying the sample, but that doesn’t feel like the proper way to solve this.

Any advice?

P.S. - I don’t use the gain on the main output in the mixer menu either.

Best regards,

DEMAAR

2

there are lots of threads about this, may be best to search via google, no point regurgitating the advice, have a search, but the key thing to keep in mind is that the OT reduces the gain at the physical inputs by 12db (i.e. 75%) - it may well do this for re-sampling too (very easy to check) so ultimately you have to put on what it took off gain wise ! either to the sample or internally

3

Thanks for your answer.

Ofcourse I’ve tried to Google this first, on multiple search terms, i.e. “octatrack volume difference while recording”, “octatrack internal sampling volume”, “octatrack internal sampling input volume”, and a lot of other combinations (and yes, I searched without the quotation marks).

Yet I haven’t gotten any results on similar topics. If you (or anyone else) has a link to one of these ‘many’ topics, thanks!

4

this is just for here http://goo.gl/4QGUbE

there’ll be more gain staging goodness on electron users
this is not a new query

5

I don’t know if this will solve your problem or not, but the other day I noticed this.
I was recording to two different flex recorders from the same source.
flex recorder 2 was playing back much quieter.
Poked around and found that flex recorder 1 had the gain turned up to +12 while flex 2 did not.
I don’t recall changing that, setting (I think it got changed by a sample I had previously loaded??)
Anyway, this could be a fix for low sample volume in general… go to the attributes of the flex track you are playing and turn the gain up. now any sample you record into that recorder gets amped up that same amount.
Just a thought, let me know if it works for you (or not).