Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

I am using the MP-7 through a Tascam US-428 to Cubase
5.1.  I thought something was wrong with my setup at
first because the recordings had no waveform.  After
about 30 minutes of fiddling around I hit play and
heard that they actually did record.  I had to stretch
the display to its maximum track size just to see a
little bit of waveform.  Thats when I normalized the
recordings so that I could see the waveforms for
editing.  I did not notice any additional noise, but I
just wanted to see if anyone else has experience with
this.  If SPDIF does not have a noise floor I think
that it would be simpler and quicker to just normalize
everything on the PC rather than adjust each preset
manually to get a hot signal without clipping.  It
also saves preset slots for me since sometimes my only
modification is to increase AMP VOL.
--- erik_magrini@... wrote:
> Well, to be honest, the SPDIf signal from the XX-7's
> is actually pretty 
> weak.  It's far below what it could be, so you'll be
> normalizing your 
> recordings by a greater amount than if you were to
> just use the regular 
> audio outs where you could send a hotter signal. 
> Anyway, yes in theory 
> you should be able to normalize your digital signal
> without adding (or 
> boosting I should say) any additional noisefloor
> artifacts.  BTW, why are 
> you wanting to normalize them in the first place?
> 
> rEalm
> 
> 
> 
> I know that it is good recording practice to get the
> hottest signal 
> from the source without clipping to get a good
> singal to noise 
> ratio.  Is this required for SPDIF?  I am thinking
> that since the 
> connection is digital I should be able to record
> from the MP-7 then 
> normalize the recordings on my PC without boosting
> noise.  Does 
> anyone have experience with this? It will save me a
> lot of time vs 
> editing all presets and boosting the AMP VOL there.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Kris 
> 
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