PreSonus StudioLive 24.4.2 - Manual (Page 92)

6 Capture
6.4 Recording in Capture
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3. Session Title. This will be the title of your Session and will be the Session file name,
as well as the name of the new folder that contains all data related to your Session.
4. Session Location. This is where new Sessions and all related data will be
saved. The Session location can be chosen each time you create a Session.
By default, the new Session location will be the Capture folder in your
Documents folder. You can choose a different file location by clicking on
the Browse button and browsing to a new location. The last known save
location will appear as the default the next time you create a new Session.
6.4 Recording in Capture
To record to an audio track, the track must be record-enabled, or “armed.” Capture
provides two Record Enable buttons for each input: one on the track and on the
meter bridge.
To record-enable an audio track, click on the Record Enable button on the track or
on the meter bridge. Both buttons will turn entirely red in color when either button
is enabled, and the track’s corresponding meter in the meter bridge should begin
to move up and down if there is live audio on that channel in the StudioLive mixer.
Click on the Arm All button at the top of the Track column to record-enable every
track at once.
Once an audio track is record enabled, you are ready to record audio to that track.
To activate recording, click on the Record button in the transport. The Record button
will turn red, and the Play button will turn green in the transport; the playback cursor
will start to scroll from left to right from its current position; and new audio events
will be recorded to record-enabled tracks.
Recording will continue until you manually stop it by clicking on the Stop button in
the Transport or by pressing [Spacebar] on the keyboard.
6.4.1 Monitoring Live Inputs
You will monitor live audio input on the StudioLive mixer. There is no separate
monitoring capability within Capture. Please refer to Section 4.4.4 in the
StudioLive Owner’s Manual for information on creating monitor mixers.
6.4.2 Setting Input Levels
Setting the proper input levels is critical to making a good live mix and a good
recording. The basic idea is to set the input gain on the StudioLive mixer as
high as possible without overloading the input. Overloading the input will
cause clipping (digital distortion), which is particularly unpleasant and will
ruin the recording. This damage cannot be undone in software. There is a
clip indicator for each input on the StudioLive mixer for this purpose.
If an input channel is not clipping on your StudioLive mixer, you can
be sure that it will not clip in Capture. Refer to Section 2.1 in your
StudioLive Owner’s Manual for the proper level setting procedure.