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Tutorial 1: Recording and playing back audio 6 – 79
3. Select the VU-Meter Settings submenu and make sure “Input VU” is
activated.
Now the input bus meter displays the signal level coming in to your hardware – note
that this level cannot be adjusted from within Nuendo!
4. Play the audio source that you want to record and check the level
meter for the input bus.
The signal should be as loud as possible without exceeding 0 dB (the Clipping indica-
tor for the input bus shouldn’t light up).
5. Adjust the output level of your audio source so that the meters go as
high as possible without going up to 0.0 dB.
Check the numerical peak level indicator below the meter in the bus channel strip. To
reset the Clipping indicator and the peak level indicator, click on either one.
Now you’ve made sure there’s no clipping in the audio hardware.
6. Bring up the Mixer context menu again and select “Post-Fader VU”
from the VU-Meter Settings submenu.
This is the “normal” metering mode which shows levels after the channel faders.
7. If you now play back the audio source you can check the output level
of the input bus – the signal that is to be recorded on your hard disk.
Since we haven’t made any adjustments in the input bus there should be no risk of clip-
ping here. If you had made level adjustments in the input bus and the Clipping indicator
lit up at this point, you would simply lower the input bus fader, reset the indicators and
try again.
Clipping indicator
Numerical peak level indicator