Gain staging used to be a crucial consideration for analogue recording and mixing - but you’ll hear plenty of people saying it doesn’t really matter, in a modern digital audio workstation. And they have a (floating) point.

But you’ll also hear lots of other people, me included, saying it IS important to understand what gain staging is and how it works, even in a digital environment.

So who’s right ? In this show we dig into the details, and discuss:

* How much peak headroom should you leave before mastering ?

* What IS gain staging, anyway ?

* Why do people say it doesn’t matter in digital ? Or:

* What’s the point of floating point ?

* How does it work ?

* When digital gain staging does matter

Full show notes on the website:

http://themasteringshow.com/episode-39

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