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What Is Gain Staging? How to Gain Stage Your Mix

What Is Gain Staging? How to Gain Stage Your Mix
What Is Gain Staging? How to Gain Stage Your Mix

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Gain staging is an important part of getting professional-sounding mixes. In this video, follow along as Sam Loose shares what gain staging is, the origins of gain staging, and how to use gain staging to your advantage in music production and audio mixing in order to avoid audio clipping and to keep excess noise to a minimum.

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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:45 What is gain staging
3:33 History of gain staging
4:23 Digital vs. analog clipping
6:22 Dynamic range in modern digital systems
7:43 Gain staging in a multitrack session
9:55 Why gain staging is important
11:13 Tips for great gain staging
12:25 Outro

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