I am a bit confused about what the channel level meters in Cubase show. The top of the channel level fader shows 6, while the meter itself show 0…Been looking all over the web for an answer to this, but haven’t found it. May be I’m blind, but I couldn’t find it in the manual either. My assumption is that the extra numbers has to do to with the 32 bit float mode thing and that Cubase doesn’t actually peak over 0 on the channel, but exporting audio down to for instance 16 bit will…is this the right way to think about it?
The level meters show dB FS. The level meter scale does not have anything to do directly with the fader level scale, which is a relative scale and btw can also be switched to +12 dB gain.
Thanks a lot…That cleared up a lot of confusion. Just to check, do I understand it correctly that as long as the level meter(not thefader) doesn’t exceed 0 at the very top the signal won’t peak digitally?
Or should I pay attention to the fader and try to keep the levels below the 0 mark on that instead? I’m not looking to master the final product myself, but getting a good ruff mix.