Hello people,
Mine is a home studio. At the present I am only using a stereo pair of unpowered monitors to hear my mixes. I never work in headphones. I use Control Room (C15). I have a PC, then a Focusrite 18i20 and an old school Suuround amp (only plugged in for Stero at teh moment).
All is working. I don’t really understand Control Room, even after reading the manual.
Often I am working a bit casually, meaning I have maybe a utube video playing and an active track in Cubase.
Question: which is the correct way to control the volume of a Cubase Project - for human listenening within my room, rather than for recording to wav’s and such like?
I assume that the last output from the mixer “Stereo Out” is the last channel in he mixer, but what confuses me, is that when a Control Room is set up, in Audio Connections, this is set to “not connected” even though the it definitely must be connected as there is activity in the mixer. ??? This is definitely the same exact channel as if I change it’s name in Audio Connections, it changes in the mixer view.
There there is the big red button called Conmtrol Room Level. I presume this is the knob one uses when adjusting for your listening pleasure in my Studio (AKA control room?).
Here is what I can’t work out. Let’s say you are completing a track and you want to ensure that your final mix - coming out of “stereo output” in the mixer, is of the correct audible volume. Here I am thinknig about an export wav or mp3. that would sound correct on a phone, PC, laptop, Royal Albert Hall etc..
Is this just a matter of not hitting peaks in the mixer and it is irrelevent what level of sound you audition in your real studio?